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iv PIETER DE HOOCH 483 24*7. Interior, with a Woman who is giving a Jug to a Girl. 20 inches by 13 inches. Sale. Winchester Clowes, and others, in London, February 4, 1901, No. 117. Compare the picture at Amsterdam (i). 24^. Interior with a Woman and Child. 23 inches by 19^ inches. In the collection of the Duke of York, 1827. Sale. Robert Orr, London, June 13, 1903, No. 101. 24<r. Interior with a Mother and Child conversing. There is a vista into a second room. Signed ; panel, 22 inches by :8J inches (in frame). Sale. Munich, May I, 1905, No. 185. 25. THE GOOD HOUSEWIFE. Sm. 38 ; de G. 13. A woman is putting away linen in a great oak press, inlaid with ebony, which stands to the right in a room. A girl, who, to judge from her fine clothes, is the woman's daughter, is helping her and taking the linen from a large basket. At the back are a high window and an open door, at which stands a child playing with a stick and a ball. A winding staircase and a cushioned chair are seen to the left of the room. "Although this picture does not possess the brilliant and luminous effect which is so much coveted in this master's works, yet it has the charm of such truth and reality in appearance that it may justly be reckoned among his best works ; the drawing and finishing are singularly perfect" (Sm.). Signed "P. de Hoogh, 1663" ; canvas, 30 inches by 28 inches. Exhibited at Amsterdam in 1872, No. no, and 1900, No. 46. See Harvard, Merveilles d* Art, pp. 57, 123. Sales. Baron Lockhorst, in Rotterdam, 1726. Joachim Rendorp, October 16, 1793, and July 9, 1794, No. 25 (295 florins, Coders) ; catalogued as on panel. Bought by Sm., after passing through the hands of a Scottish owner, for 5- Sale. Smith, 1828 (399, bought in). In the collection of Six van Hillegom, Amsterdam, 1833 (Sm.). Now in the collection of Dr. J. P. Six, Amsterdam, No. 46. 26. THE MARKETING-MONEY. De G. 18. To the left in an entrance-hall sits a housewife on the stairs. She wears a red jacket edged with white fur, and has a basket and a little dog at her side. She gives money to a girl, who holds a market basket and listens with half- ashamed and downcast eyes to what the woman, with an ill-tempered air, is saying. To the right, farther back, another girl is cleaning the tiled floor and appears to listen to the conversation. Signed, " P. d. Hoogh " ; canvas, 23^ inches by 26 inches. Exhibited at Berlin, May 1890, No. 136, and in the spring of 1906, No. 66. Sale. Bugge, Copenhagen, August 21, 1837, No. 354. Now in the collection of Berthold Richter at Berlin.