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 xxi EGLON HENDRIK VAN DER NEER 501 hem of her skirt, at which a little dog is springing. She holds up a dainty in her right hand. In the right background, before the curtains of a bed, a woman in a white cap sits holding a little girl who stands on her lap and looks at the little dog in front. On the extreme left is a table with a cover. On the back-wall is a picture. Canvas, 19 inches by 14^ inches. Sales. O. Pein, Cologne, October 29, 1888, No. 56. Rilmerskirch and others, Munich, March 23, 1903, No. 61. 105. A LADY WITH A PARROT. Full length. In the centre of a room stands a young lady, wearing a white satin gown with a blue sash ; her hair hangs down in disorder ; she has pearls at her throat, arms, and bosom. She looks to the right at a parrot in a cage ; the parrot comes out to take a piece of sugar from her left hand. On the left is a table with a Turkey carpet, on which are a mirror, a cloth, a box, and a metal plate from which the lady takes something with her right hand. To the left is a window. On the back-wall is a map. Signed on the window-sill ; 16 inches by 15 inches. Sales. Amsterdam, April n, 1893, No. 794. Schonlank, Cologne, April 28, 1896, No. 136 (800 mark, Bachofen of Basel). 106. THE LETTER. In the centre of a room a young lady stands in profile to the left at a table covered with a Turkey carpet and an orange cloth. She wears an elegant white satin gown, cut low at the neck, and has a red veil wound round her neck and her left arm. In her right hand she holds a letter which she reads attentively. She has received it from a negro man-servant, standing in the right background and leaning his right arm on the back of a red easy-chair. To the left, beside the lady, is a maid-servant in a dark gown with a white collar. She looks at her mistress as she places on the table a broad metal dish and a jug. On the left side- wall above the table hangs a mirror in a richly decorated gilt frame. At the back is a bed with red curtains. Signed in full on the right, and dated 1682 ; canvas, 32 inches by 34 inches. A copy of almost the same size is in a private collection in Vienna. Another copy 16 inches by 12^ inches was in the sale : Philips Neven, Amsterdam, March 24, 1892, No. 89. A replica was in the sale: J. F. D, Berlin, November 28, 1911, No. 79. Exhibited at Amsterdam, 1906, No. 92. Sale. Jules Lenglart of Lille, Paris, 1902. In the possession of the Paris dealer C. Sedelmeyer, "Catalogue of 100 Paintings," 1902, No. 27. Sale. C. Sedelmeyer, Paris, May 25, 1907, No. 147 (7800 francs). In the possession of the London dealer H. M. Clark. 107. A Gentleman handing a Letter to a Maid-Servant He wears a robe, and sits at a table with a cloth upon which is a globe. Other accessories in the room. Very naturally painted and delicately