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55 8 PIETER DE HOOCH SECT. Sales. In Amsterdam, October 18, 1819, No. 27 (506 florins, Hulswit). R. Bernal, London, 1824 (157 : ios., Peacock). Purchased by King George IV. (for 420). Now in the Royal Collection at Buckingham Palace, London, No. 136 in the 1885 catalogue. Two indifferent old copies of this picture have come up at recent sales. One, on panel, 21 inches by 18 inches, was No. 146 in the Hacker sale, Frank- fort-on-Main, April 26, 1901, and No. 79 in the Zurbuch sale, Frankfort, October 30, 1901. The other, on canvas, 27^ inches by 21 inches, was No. 98 in the Krentzlin sale, Frankfort, May 13, 1897, and No. 53 in the Huene sale, Cologne, April 25, 1898. 293. WOMAN AND CHILD IN THE STREET. Sm. 15 j de G. 39. Beside the inner wall of a Dutch town, above which rise some picturesque houses and a church-tower, a woman walks, carrying a dish of apples. She holds out a piece of money to a child. Farther to the back a man in a black cloak is going through the town gate. The left-hand side of the picture is filled with the corner of a whitewashed house. On the wall is fixed a shelf with a jug upon it ; above is an open window with a vine-clad trellis. Its brilliant effect and luminous tone, the delicacy of its brushwork, and its great fidelity to nature, combine to make this picture one of the artist's best works. Canvas, 30 inches by i inches. Mentioned by Waagen (ii. 105) ; by Havard (no, 2) ; and by Ch. Blanc, Le Tresor de la Curiosite, ii. 208. Saks. Helsleuter (Van Eyl Sluyter ?), Paris, January 27, 1802, No. 71 (3440 francs). G. Muller, Amsterdam, April 2, 1827 (6000 florins, Brondgeest according to a copy of the catalogue in the Leyden Print Room, but sold to Emmerson for 6450 florins, or 550, according to Smith). In the collection of Alexander Baring in 1833 (Sm.). In the collection of Lord Ashburton, The Grange ; supposed to have been destroyed in a fire at Bath House, London. 294. WOMAN AND CHILD IN A COURTYARD. In the middle distance, parallel to the pkne of the picture, is a town wall j steps lead up to an open door, and farther on to the ramparts. To the right is an arbour, identical with that which is represented in the picture belonging to the Vienna Academy (321). In the arbour sit two gentlemen with slouch hats and a lady at their wine. Across the courtyard comes a servant-girl, wearing a light-brown jacket and a white apron over a red skirt, with a little girl at her side. She carries in her right hand a flat basket containing a loaf wrapped in a cloth, and in her left hand a jug ; she looks at the little girl, who holds a bird-cage. Both are going towards the pump, which is built against the house-wall in the left foreground. It is the same pump that is represented in the London National Gallery picture (290). In the trough is a broom ; near it are a tub and a pot. On the house-wall, the upper part of which is timbered, two creepers are trained on a lattice ; in the right foreground is another creeper with a white blossom, and the arbour is covered with foliage. The tops of trees