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iv PIETER DE HOOCH 485 30. LADY WITH A SERVANT-GIRL. Sm. n. To the right in a room, paved with white and brown tiles, sits a lady. She wears a red jacket trimmed with fur and a skirt of the same colour ; on her lap lies an embroidery-cushion. She is giving money from her pocket to a servant-girl who has a market-pail in her right hand. A child is pulling the girl to the left by her apron. By the open window to the right is a table with a cloth, upon which are placed a mug and a glass on a silver tray. On the wall above the fireplace hang a landscape with Venus and Cupid, and a mirror in which the picture is reflected. A vine-tendril creeps in at the window. It is a fine picture ; the figures are very good, and the execution is broad and delicate. [See 51.] Canvas, 28J inches by 25^ inches. Sales. Jacob Crammer Simonszoon, in Amsterdam, November 25, 1778, No. 12 (520 florins, Nijman). (Probably) J. Danser Nijman, August 16, 1797 (400 florins, Roos). B. Ocke, in Leyden, April 21, 1817 (370 florins, Van den Berg). Roothan, in Amsterdam, March 29, 1826 (1185 florins, Brondgeest). In the collection of Sir Charles Bagot, London, in 1833 (Sm.). Sale. D. van der Schrieck, of Louvain, Brussels, April 8, 1861, No. 34 (6000 francs, Schollaert, son-in-law of Van der Schrieck). Now in the collection of M. G. Helleputte, formerly Schollaert, in Louvain. 31. WOMAN WITH A CHILD. A woman in red is stroking a little girl under the chin. The woman wears a red skirt and a carmine jacket trimmed with fur. The picture resembles most the example in Liitzschena (35). Signed in the middle of the chimney-piece. Sale. (Possibly) Van der Schrieck of Louvain, in Brussels, April 8, 1861 ; but not in the sale catalogue. Now in the collection of M. G. Helleputte, formerly Schollaert, in Louvain. [Note. The compiler saw the picture in a London saleroom.] 32. WOMAN, SERVANT-GIRL, AND CHILD. A young woman in a yellow jacket trimmed with white, with a rose at her bosom, sits sewing by a window to the right, and looks towards the spectator. A servant-girl in a brown dress with a market-pail is going out to the left. She holds by the hand a little girl in a red frock, who carries a whip, at which a dog in the right foreground is barking. A window, with red casement and curtains, looks upon a landscape. Signed on the lower edge of the window " P. d. Hoogh " ; canvas, 25^ inches by 22^ inches. Formerly in the collections of the Marquis de Crillon and the Princesse de Polignac. Exhibited in 1897 and 1901 by the dealers P. and D. Colnaghi, London. 33. WOMAN PEELING APPLES. DeG. 55. In the right- hand corner of a room sits a woman, facing the spectator. She wears a black velvet jacket trimmed with fur, a red skirt, and a white apron. In her lap she holds a basket of apples which she is peeling. She holds out a