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 552 PIETER DE HOOCH SECT. slightly bending forward, between the two men in full light. The third soldier, who wears a cuirass and has a pipe in his hand, sits in the left fore- ground with his back to the spectator. Near the back wall sits a beggar, wearing a large hat, a greyish-brown jacket, and brown breeches. Through an open door to the right is seen another man with an orange sash. In the right foreground a dog is lying, partly on straw, partly on a cloak. Panel, 24 inches by 30 inches. Described by Havard, 36, No. 12 ; and by W. Burger, Gazette des Beaux Arts, 1866, p. 549, No. 11, as a Vermeer. Formerly ascribed to Jean Leduc. Now in the collection at the Villa Borghese, Rome, No. 269. 273. YOUNG SOLDIER WITH A PIPE IN A DOOR- WAY. The soldier, with smiling face, sits to the right in a self-conscious attitude, facing the spectator, with his right foot on a stone and his left hand on his knee. He has long curls, and wears a pot-helmet, a cuirass fastened by a thong round the neck, and a sword at his left. Under his cuirass he wears a yellowish-brown jacket and breeches of the same colour, with white stockings ; a red cloak lies across his knee. His pike is placed against the wall to the right. In the left foreground, through an arched doorway, three soldiers are seen in shadow at the entrance to a small house, while a fourth is within by the watch-fire. Beyond the house is a vista of roofs and of a church-tower perhaps that of the church of Delft which is cut off" by the archway. The picture is of the early period, and shows the influence of Carel Fabritius. The soldier's right arm was altered while the work was in progress. Panel, 22 inches by i8| inches. Described by Sigurd Muller in the Zeitschrift fur bildende Kunsf, 1902, p. 44, as a Carel Fabritius. Now in the collection at the Palazzo Corsini, Rome, No. 401. 274. INTERIOR BY CANDLELIGHT. The chief source of light, by the chimney-piece on the right, is hidden by the figure of a man who stands in profile to the left, wearing dark clothes, white stockings, and a brown hat, with his pipe in his right hand and his left behind him. He speaks to a lady facing the spectator, who cuts bread for a girl standing at her left hand. The lady wears a red skirt and red jacket trimmed with fur, and a white apron and kerchief. The girl wears a yellow dress and white apron, and holds a stick in her right hand and a stuffed owl in her left. In the left background, before the window, a boy sits on a bench with a large lantern beside him. On the extreme left is an open door. The floor is paved with black and white tiles. The picture is in a very bad state of preservation. It dates from the middle period j the man's figure is still very well drawn, while the woman's figure already shows signs of carelessness. Canvas, 24 inches by 22 inches. Now in the collection at the Palazzo Corsini, Rome, No. 402. 275. SCENE IN A TAVERN. De G. 85. A stout elderly man, in a red jacket, sits on a chair in the middle of a room ; he is half