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iv PIETER DE HOOCH 507 116. Lady with Parrot. In a room sits a lady at a table on which is a parrot in a cage. A gentleman stands near. Panel. Compare the picture in the Mansberg collection at Dresden (no). Sale. Pieter Gets and others, in Amsterdam, January 31, 1791, No. 48 (14 florins, Fouquet) ; with a picture of a music-party (142^). 117. The Parrot. In a well-furnished room a young lady holds out a piece of cake to a parrot in a cage. Beside her stands a gentleman with a pipe in his hand. Canvas, 25 inches by 21 inches. Compare the picture in the Weber collection (ill) and that of the La Neuville sale, 1813 (uSa). Sale. J. Gildemeester Jansz, in Amsterdam, June n, 1800, No. 81 (50 florins, Josi) a pendant to No. 80, "The Dancing Dogs " (148). 1 1 8. The Parrot. The open door of a passage or room affords a view of another room, in which a richly-dressed lady sits at a table with a cloth upon it. She feeds a parrot, whose cage is held by a gentleman standing near. Through a passage beyond is seen a canal. The effect of the daylight streaming in is excellent. Canvas, 30 inches by 26 inches. Sales. Amsterdam, July 19, 1809, No. 21 (145 florins, Teengs). D. Teengs, in Amsterdam, April 24, 1811, No. 57 (76 florins, Gruyter). 1 1 Sa . The Parrot. In the middle of a handsomely furnished room a young lady, at a table covered with a cloth, feeds a parrot. A well- dressed gentleman stands beside her and opens the door of the cage to let the parrot out. The room is lighted from a window ; an open door leads into a courtyard. Compare the picture of the Gildemeester sale, June n, 1800 (117). Sale. La Neuville, in Paris, November 14, 1813. 119. A Family in an Interior. An old-fashioned interior, from the window of which on the right is a view of a stream. By the window stands a servant girl holding a basket of fruit. Near her sit a well-dressed gentleman and a lady with a child on her lap. The gentleman offers the child a bunch of grapes from the basket. A dog is in the foreground and a parrot on a perch in the middle distance. The composition is pleasing ; the picture is effective and painted in a masterly manner. It is of the artist's best period. Panel, 26 inches by 20 inches. Sale. Jakob Anthony van Dam, in Dordrecht, June I, 1829, No. 58 (515 florins, Van Eyk). 119*7. Woman with a Parrot. A woman sits at a table, on which stands a cage with a parrot. Panel, 28 inches by 31^ inches. In the Darmstadt Gallery, 1863 (Parthey, i. 622).