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566 PIETER DE HOOCH SECT. on which stands a dish of grapes and peaches. On the tiled pavement a watch-dog lies at the feet of one of the women. From the left come a man and a woman ; the man is in black, with a broad-brimmed hat, and rests his right hand on his hip ; the woman wears a red petticoat trimmed with gold lace, a bodice of brocade, a black hood, and pearls in her hair and ears, and holds a peach in her left hand. Farther back in the middle of the picture stands a fair-haired young man, facing the spectator ; he wears a broad-brimmed hat, a light grey doublet and riding-cloak, pale blue breeches, and black and white rosettes on his shoes. An older man, dressed in similar fashion, but more simply, comes down a wooden staircase on the right. The tendrils of a creeper growing on the town wall over- spread the arbour. To the left of it is a rose-tree in full bloom on the fence. In the background are seen some gables and the tower of the Nieuwe Kerk in Delft. The lighting is uniform in quality. Signs of an alteration in the design may be seen to the right of the leg of the man standing on the left ; and the old man on the right appears to have been once seated at a lower level. It is a good work of the first period. [Compare 294.] Canvas, 45^ inches by 38^ inches. Long ascribed in error to J. Vermeer by Erasm. Engert, Waagen, and Biirger (Gazette des Beaux Arts, 1866, p. 550, No. 13). Presented by Graf Lamberg in 1821, as a Terborch, to the Akademie der bildenden Kttnste, Vienna, where it is No. 715 in the 1900 catalogue. 322. A Family Piece. Canvas, 40 inches by 34 inches. Sale. Jakob Hendrik Viet, at The Hague, September 25, 1780, No. 68 (24 florins, Van Denemarke). It is not clear from the words of the catalogue " buiten de lijst " whether it was measured with or without the frame ; in the latter case it may be identical with the picture of the Dundas sale, London, 1794 (322*2), assuming that the dimensions are reversed. 322*. The Van Willemsdorp Family. [Compare 322.] 36 inches by 42 inches. Sale. Sir L. Dundas, London, 1794 (6 : 6s. or .12). 323. Portrait of a Prince of Orange. A young prince of the house of Orange sits on a stone step making a dog dance. Canvas, 36 inches by 24 inches. Sale. In Paris, January 25, 1813, No. 57 (79 francs). 324. Portrait of a Young Lady as Juno. The hands are visible. On the horizon are two flying swans. Canvas, 12 inches by 9^ inches. Sale. In Leipzig, March 31, 1845, No. 219. 324*. Portrait of a Lady. Exhibited at Leeds, 1868, No. 747. Then in the collection of Sir C. W. Dilke, Bart.