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 xvni CASPAR NETSCHER 195 56 inches by 45 inches. Sale. London, June 20, 1903, No. 133. 136*:. The Letter. A lady in blue and red sits holding a letter. Behind her is a maid-servant. Panel, 18 inches by 14^ inches. Sale. Lovett and others, London, April 27, 1907, No. 121. 136^. A Young Woman to whom a Man brings a Letter. The woman sits at her toilet-table. The man advances from the back- ground. Described from a chalk drawing 8 inches by 6 inches in the Cologne Museum ; which was in the sale : Stuttgart, May 25, 1903, No. 203 (179 mark). According to a MS. note on the back, the picture was painted in 1662 (for 80 florins). The original is lost. 137. A YOUNG LADY WITH A PARROT AND A PAGE. Sm. 53. A young lady in blue with slashed sleeves stands at a window with a stone frame ; she is turned to the left in a three-quarter view. She holds on her right hand a grey and red parrot, to which she is giving in her left hand a piece of sugar. Behind her to the right a page holds a silver salver. On the window-sill in front of the lady are, to the left, a cage, and, to the right, a Persian carpet, which leaves uncovered the letters " MDC " of the date chiselled on the stonework. Above the lady, to the right, is a brownish-yellow curtain. Signed in full on the left at foot, and dated 1666 ; panel, 18 inches by 14^ inches. A replica, probably not by the artist's own hand, is in the Dresden Gallery, 1908 catalogue, No. 1354. Another replica was In the possession of the Basel dealer P. Birmann. Sales. Heris (Eire), Paris, March 25, 1841, No. 39 (3400 francs) see Ch. Blanc, ii. 444. G. Papin, Paris, March 28, 1873, No. 20 (7200 francs). Lithographed by J. Fertig. In the collection of the Elector Palatine Johann Wilhelm (who died in 1 7 1 6), Dtisseldorf see Van Gool, ii. 562. In the Mannheim Gallery. In the Aeltere Pinakothek, Munich, 1904 catalogue, No. 1399 ; it was there in 1833 (Sm.). 138. A LADY WITH A PARROT AND A GENTLEMAN WITH A MONKEY. Sm. 49. A young lady in white satin with a plume on her head stands at an arched window, feeding a parrot which perches on a cage at the side. A gentleman in dark clothes gives a walnut to a monkey crouching on the window-sill. Of good quality. " Painted with exquisite purity of colour and elaborate finishing" (Sm.). Dated 1664; copper, 13! inches by ii inches. A replica was in the sale : Stadnitzky and Muller, Amsterdam, May 1 6, 1831, No. 68 (221 florins, Van den Berg).