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494 PIETER DE HOOCH SECT. open door looks on a canal. At the back of the room are some furniture and a shelf of jugs and plates. This is a fine picture. Signed in full on the side of the hearth ; canvas, 28 inches by 32 inches. Sales. P. J. and B. van der Muelen of Coblenz, Amsterdam, August 22, 1850, No. 32 (1750 florins). Dr. van Cleef, Paris, April 4, 1864, No. 47 (9000 francs, Meffre). Now in the possession of the dealer Durand Ruel, Paris. 65. Lady and Girl with Butter. In the foreground sits a lady, holding a piece of bread in one hand and taking butter with the other from a plate held by a little girl. Beside her is a spaniel. In the back- ground a half-opened door looks on a sunlit staircase. The middle distance is lighted by a window with a red curtain ; there are houses in the distance. Canvas, 36^ inches by 32^ inches. Compare Havard, 104, 2. In the Cornelissen collection, Brussels, 1842 (1010 florins), according to Havard ; but not in the sale catalogue of 1857. Sale. Paris, April I, 1882, No. 2. 66. WOMAN WITH A CHILD AT HER BREAST, AND A SERVANT-GIRL. Sm. 12. Beside the hearth, to the right of a large room paved with marble, sits a woman, wearing a blue silk skirt and red jacket, with a child at her breast. To her left is a cradle. To her right is the fireplace, with a kettle hanging over the fire. On the chimney-piece is a drinking-glass, and above it is a large mirror or picture. The woman turns her head towards a servant-girl in a red skirt, who stands at her left with a pail on her arm. A little girl, with her back to the spectator, pulls at the servant's hand. To the left an open door looks into an ante-room, beyond which is seen a sunlit house, with steps, on the other side of a canal. Canvas, 24 inches by 30 inches. Sales. Helsleuter (Van Eyl Sluyter ?), in Paris, January 25, 1802, No. 872 (1500 francs). E. M. Engelberts, Amsterdam, August 25, 1817, No. 40 (771 florins, De Vries). The widow of J. H. Molkenboer, nee Schenkhuizen, in Amsterdam, September 6, 1853, No. n (1575 florins, Derksen or Meffre). Prince Paul Galitzin, Paris, March 10, 1875, No. 47. John Wilson, Paris, March 14, 1881, No. 63 (12,000 francs). Paris, March 20, 1883, No. 26. Ad. Jos. B5sch, in Vienna, April 28, 1885 (2520 florins, Grtinwald). Now in the Kunsthistorische Hofmuseum, Vienna. 67. Woman and Servant-Girl. By a blazing fire sits a woman conversing with a servant-girl. An open door looks on a vestibule, where a man is reading. Canvas, 13! inches by 15^ inches. Sale. Krupp, jun., and others, in Cologne, October 29, 1894, No. 93. Compare the picture at Aix (172*2).