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 iv PIETER DE HOOCH 565 surrounded with trees ; in the centre is a tall straight fir. The attribution to P. de Hooch is doubtful. The picture is broad in proportion to its height. Sale. John Rogers, in London, April 30, 1847, No. 194 (%z : 193.). In the possession of a London dealer about the year 1900. 317. VIEW OF DELFT AFTER THE EXPLOSION OF 1654. Behind some shattered houses rises the Nieuwe Kerk, with its broad side towards the spectator. To the left are two tall trees, whose foliage is excessively brown. Beyond them, along a wooden fence, are other trees and houses. To the left are walking a well-dressed citizen and his wife, both dressed in black and white, with a touch of red in the costume. The lady points to a boy wearing a yellow jacket and a red cap, who sits by the roadside on the right, with his arm in a sling. Near the boy, and with his back to the spectator, is a little girl, dressed in green and dark lilac, with a hoop. In the background to the right among the ruins are two gentlemen, respectively dressed in black and in yellowish brown. It is not a very pleasing picture, for it has so little colour. The woman's face, especially, has been over-cleaned. In many places a different com- position shows through the paint. Traces of a signature in the right-hand bottom corner ; painted in 1654; canvas, 26 inches by 27^ inches. Exhibited at the Royal Academy Winter Exhibition, London, 1902, No. 221. In the collection of L. Nicholson, London, 1899. Afterwards in the collection of Arthur Douglas, London, 1902. Now in the possession of F. Kleinberger, the Paris dealer. 318. The Lazar House (in Delft). Sale. In Amsterdam, March 28, 1708 (Hoet, i. 115), No. 87 (7 florins 10). 319. VIEW OF A DUTCH TOWN. Picturesque red brick houses on both sides. In the background a church built of stone. Some figures. Signed ; 46^ inches by 41 inches. Sales. John Pemberton, of Heywood, in London, June 2, 1890, No. 93. In London, June 2, 1894. 320. A Pasture in the Neighbourhood of Delft, with Cattle and Figures. 21 inches by 26^ inches. Sale. In London, June 20, 1903, No. 90. 321. FAMILY IN THE COURTYARD OF A HOUSE. De G. 87. Three women and four men are assembled in a courtyard, on the right of which is the town wall. A fifth man is going away through the adjacent garden, upon which a wooden door opens in the middle distance. Three of the principal figures a grey-bearded old man in dark clothes with a black cap, and two elderly women in black with white caps and collars are seated on the righit, in front of an arbour, at a table