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vi JOHANNES VERMEER 591 19^. A Lady with a Maid-Servant and a Page. 28 inches by 25 inches. Sale. Maclean, London, November 21, 1903, No. 110. 20. A YOUNG LADY WITH A PEARL NECKLACE. B. 33 ; H. 36. A young lady stands on the right at a table. She faces to the left, towards a mirror on the left-hand wall, and is occupied in fastening a pearl necklace round her neck. She wears a grey silk skirt and a yellow jacket trimmed with ermine. On the table are a dark blue cloth, a blue Japanese vase, and some articles of the toilet. In the right foreground is a tall chair. Behind the mirror to the left is a high window, admitting the full daylight, with a yellow curtain. The cool light wall of the room, filling nearly half the picture, forms the back- ground. The picture recalls the Van der Hoop picture at Amsterdam (31) and the picture at the London National Gallery (23). It belongs to the artist's later period. Signed on the table, "J. Meer " (the J and M intertwined) j canvas, 22 inches by 18 inches. Exhibited at the Champs Elysees, Paris. A copy by J. Waldorp was in the sale of drawings belonging to P. Yver, Amsterdam, March 31, 1788, No. 27 (10 florins 10, Pruyssenaar). Sales. Amsterdam, May 16, 1696, No. 36 (30 florins). J. Caudri, Amsterdam, September 6, 1809, No. 42 (55 florins, Spaan). D. Teengs, Amsterdam, April 24, 1811, No. 73 (36 florins, Gruyter). In the collections of Henry Grevedon ; of W. Btirger, Paris, 1860 ; of Suermondt, Aix-la-Chapelle, 1874. Now in the Kaiser Friedrich Museum, Berlin, 1904 catalogue, No. 9126. 21. An Interior, with a Gentleman washing his Hands. B. 39 ; H. 42. With a vista and figures. Sale. Amsterdam, May 16, 1696, No. 5 (95 florins). 22. A Woman combing her Hair. B. 47. 15 inches by 13 inches. Sale. Pieter de Klok not Blok, as W. Burger says Amsterdam, April 22, 1744, No. 87 (i 8 florins). 22#. A Woman washing a Boy's Head, in a Room. Sale. H. van der Heuvel and J. Hackefort, Rotterdam, April 1 8, 1816, No. 107 (8 florins, Dozy). 22b. A Domestic Scene. B. 47. Sale. Rotterdam, 1820 (194 florins). 22c. A Domestic Scene. B. 47. Three figures in an interior. [Possibly identical with 22^.] Sale. Rotterdam, 1832 (190 florins). 22d. A YOUNG GIRL WITH A FLUTE. Behind a table,