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600 JOHANNES VERMEER SECT. bought it at a London sale (for 246 : 155.) as a P. de Hooch. It was not in the Demidoff collection, as Havard says. Sale. Leopold Double, Paris, May 30, 1881. Now in the collection of Mrs. Joseph, London. 40. A merry Company in a Room. Sale. Amsterdam, May 16, 1696, No. 9 (73 florins). 40*. A Gentleman and Lady eating Oysters. A lady stands in a room pouring wine into a tall glass which she holds on a silver salver. On the table near her are a dish of oysters and a plate of bread. A gentleman seated near it watches the lady attentively. Canvas or panel, 19^ inches by 16 inches. Sale. Jacob Crammer Simonsz, Amsterdam, November 25, 1778, No. 20 (65 florins, Tersteeg). A Girl and a Cavalier. B. 21 ; H. 24. A young man is courting a young woman who holds a wine-glass. To the left is a table with various objects. Panel, 12 inches by 9^ inches. Sale. Dr. Luchtmans, Rotterdam, April 20, 1816, No. 91 (60 florins 50). 41. THE PROCURESS. B. i ; H. i. A three-quarter length. To the right of a balcony, the front of which is draped with a rich oriental carpet, sits a young woman racing the spectator. She wears a lemon-yellow jacket and a white cap. She holds a tall wine-glass in her left hand ; she stretches out her right to take a coin which her lover, who stands behind her, is offering. The man, who has long curls, wears a red coat and a large grey hat adorned with a ribbon and a plume, which he has cocked over his right eye ; he lays his left hand on the girl's breast. To the left sits a young man, in black slashed with white, a white collar and a black hat ; he holds a beer-glass in his left hand and a lute in his right. Between the two men is seen the face of the procuress in the background an old woman in a black cloak who watches the girl's expression. Signed in the right-hand bottom corner, "J. v. Meer" (the J and M intertwined) and dated 1656 ; canvas, 57 inches by 52 inches. Compare W. Burger (Musees, i. 77) and Parthey (ii. 98). Brought to Dresden in 1741 from the Wallenstein collection at Dux. Catalogued as by J. Vermeer since 1835, but attributed, until 1862, to J. Vermeer of Utrecht. Now in the Picture Gallery, Dresden, 1905 catalogue, No. 1335. 41*7. A Trooper and a Girl. In an open hall a trooper sits, holding a half-clad girl on his knee. In front of him stands a Cupid, whom the girl beckons to her while she points to the soldier. To the right is a view into a landscape. On the floor are various trophies of war standards, trumpets, and so forth. Panel, 1 6 inches by 2o| inches. Sale. Von Woyna and others, Bonn, March i, 1898, No. 136.