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 562 PIETER DE HOOCH SECT. Formerly in the collection of Count von Fries, Vienna. Sales, Heris of Brussels, in Paris, June 19, 1846, No. 27. Pierard of Valenciennes, in Paris, March 21, 1860, No. 29. Sir H. H. Campbell, in London, 1867 (bought in for 63). 306. Man and Woman in an Arbour. To the right are a man and a woman in an arbour. He is seated, quietly smoking a pipe, which he holds in his right hand ; he wears red breeches, white gaiters, and light brown shoes. Before him, to the left, stands the woman, in a red jacket trimmed with fur j she has a glass in her left hand and a jug in her right, and seems to be about to drink his health. The house is not represented, and there is no vista. Dr. Bredius considers the picture genuine. Formerly in the Sellar collection, London. Sale. D. Sellar, London, June 6, 1889, or March 17, 1894. 306*7. A Lady and a Cavalier. With the landlord in the courtyard of an inn. iy inches by 15 inches. Sales. Sir Henry Meysey Thompson and others, in London, March 16, 1901, No. 82. Duke of Marl borough and others, London, May 14, 1904, No. 50. 307. DEPARTURE FROM A COUNTRY HOUSE. De G. 44. Two ladies stand before a waggon. A gentleman in red plays with a dog. Three other figures stand farther back. A boy comes forward with a jug. To the right is the house. In the middle of the background is the gate of the park. It is a very late work. Canvas, 25^ inches by 32 inches. Sale. Bell, London, 1881 (105, Partington). In the collection of C. T. D. Crews, London. 308. THE GAME OF SKITTLES. Sm. 58 and 59 ; de G. 15. In the centre foreground the ninepins are set up. To the right of them stand a lady and a gentleman conversing ; the lady is dressed in yellow silk, and the gentleman, with his back to the spectator, is in light grey with a slouch hat. To the left is another gentleman, wearing a light blue costume lined with red, and holding his hat under his arm ; behind him stands a lady in a black jacket and orange skirt, with her back to the spectator. To the right is a garden of lilies and other flowers, with a stone figure of Cupid among them, and trees at the back ; to the left are high trimmed hedges, through which a soft light penetrates. In the centre of the middle distance is a sunlit mansion j in front of it is a trellised arbour in which are two cavaliers. One has just entered ; the other, who is seated, was an after-thought of the painter, as the lines of the architecture are seen through his figure (cf. the maid-servant in 183). It is an early work. Signed, by the flower-bed to the right, " P D Hoogh " (the last four letters are a later addition) ; canvas, 26 inches by 24 inches. Mentioned by Burger, Tresors <T Art, 1862, p. 318, and by Waagen, Supple- ment, pp. 294-5.