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vi JOHANNES VERMEER 599 wall hangs a landscape. The scene is lighted from two windows in the left-hand wall. The front window, which is half-open, has in the centre a coat of arms, identical with that in the Brunswick picture (38); compare the window in 35. The floor is paved with tiles. Owing to the yellow varnish the picture seems unusually warm in tone. Canvas, 26| inches by 30^ inches. Sale. Jan van Loon, Delft, July 18, 1736, No. 16 (52 florins). In the collection of Lord Francis Pelham Clinton Hope, 1891 catalogue, No. 54 ; the collection was purchased as a whole in 1898 by P. and D. Colnaghi and A. Wertheimer. Now in the Kaiser Friedrich Museum, Berlin, 1904 catalogue, No. 912*-. 38. THE GIRL WITH THE WINE-GLASS. B. 6. ; H. 6. In the right foreground a young girl is seated, facing left. She holds a wine-glass in her right hand ; her left hand rests on her lap. A cavalier, who stands behind and bows to her, grasps her by the right hand as if inviting her to drink. She turns her head away from him with a smile and looks out of the picture. Another gentleman sits in the left background at a table ; he looks to the right and leans his head on his hand. The girl wears a light red dress, the colour of which dominates the picture. The table-cover is blue ; at one corner is a white napkin, with a jug and a dish of lemons near it. The floor is paved with blue and white tiles. On the wall hangs a three-quarter length portrait of a man. To the left is a half- opened window with the same coat of arms as in the window in 37. It is per pale ; the dexter, or, a chevron gules, with nine small lozenges sable in two rows above, and six of the same in three rows below ; the sinister, on a chief vert three martlets ; the crest is a woman holding a snake in her left hand. The blue tone of the underpainting shows through in several places, especially in the flesh and in the passages of white. Signed in the right-hand lower corner of the window "J. Meer" (the J and M intertwined) ; canvas, 31 inches by 27 inches. Compare Waagen (iii. 27), W. Burger (Musees, ii. 73), Riegel (Beitrage, ii. 331-333), and Parthey (ii. 97). Now in the Picture Gallery, Brunswick, 1900 catalogue, No. 316. 39. THE SOLDIER AND THE LAUGHING GIRL. B.;; H. 7. A three-quarter length. In the left-hand corner of a room a soldier and a girl sit conversing at a table. The soldier is in shadow in the left foreground and is seen in lost profile ; he wears a large black slouch hat with a red ribbon, and a red coat with a bandolier, and rests his right hand on his hip. The girl sits more to the right and farther back, and wears a white cap, a black and yellow bodice, and a blue skirt. In her right hand she holds a wine-glass ; her left hand rests on the table. To the left is a window, with one casement open. On the wall is a map of Holland and West Friesland. Exhibited at the Champs Elysees, Paris, No. 107 ; and at the Burlington Fine Arts Club, London, 1900. Sale. Amsterdam, May 16, 1696, No. ii (44 florins). In 1866 (W. Burger) it was in the collection of Leopold Double, who