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rv PIETER DE HOOCH 531 195. GIRL AND TWO CAVALIERS AT THEIR WINE. Sm. 2 ; de G. 46. At a table to the left of a room a girl, an older woman, and two gentlemen are grouped. One man sits to the left with his back against a high window that is half open ; he has a pipe in his left hand and wears a yellow doublet and a broad-brimmed black hat. On the table, covered with a plain cloth, are a wine-glass, a jug, a small tray, and a clay pipe. To the right, on a low stool before the table, sits a girl of striking appearance, facing left ; she wears a red dress, a light bodice and a cap, and holds in her right hand a wine-glass, which a man in black, standing behind, fills for her. An older woman in a white cap seems to-be speaking to this man. On the wall behind the group hangs a large engraved view of Amsterdam. To the right an open door looks into two rooms j in the farther room, which is illumined by sunshine, stands an old Dutch cabinet with a figure of Mercury upon it, very similar to the figure in the Werner Weissbach picture (4). To the right of the door is a chest, over which hangs a picture of Christ and the woman taken in adultery ; this is cut ofF by the frame. In the foreground are an easy-chair and a sleeping dog. Signed " P. D. H." j canvas, 26 inches by 23 inches. Waagen (ii. 119) says that the picture, before it was cleaned, must have been one of the finest and most harmonious works of the master. Exhibited at the Royal Academy Winter Exhibition, 1881, No. 126, and at the South Kensington Museum, 1892, No. 34. Possibly in the Leers sale (201), but compare 173. Sale. Gerard Braamcamp, in Amsterdam, July 31, 1771, No. 87 (420 florins, Jan. Hope). In the collection of Henry Philip Hope, 1833 (Sm.). In the collection of Lord Francis Pelham Clinton-Hope, at Deepdene, which was purchased as a whole by P. and D. Colnaghi and A. Wertheimer in 1898. Probably in the collection of the late Baron Alphonse de Rothschild, Paris. 196. CONVERSATION. Two ladies and two gentlemen are engaged in a conversation. In the background by the fireplace a gentle- man lights his pipe. To the right, by a door looking into a garden, a man-servant carries a cup. A dog is in the foreground. Signed in full " P d Hooch " ; canvas, 27 inches by 34 inches. Exhibited in Vienna, 1873, No. 116. In the possession of the dealer Ch. Sedelmeyer, Paris. 197. THE SOCIAL PARTY. De G. 51. To the left, by a half-opened window, are lovers kissing ; a dog springs up at the lady, who is seated. To the right, before a table covered with a Smyrna carpet, is a young lady in a satin dress with her back to the spectator. At the table sits another lady, facing the spectator ; she is playing the mandoline. A gentleman beside her takes off his hat and raises his glass to drink her health. A page with fruit enters from the background to the right. At the back hangs a door-curtain ; a chandelier is suspended from the ceiling. The picture is of the latest period. Signed in full on the left, and dated 1675 (not 1653, as Sedelmeyer's catalogue erroneously states) ; canvas, 31^ inches by 39! inches.