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1 86 CASPAR NETSCHER SECT. A Pastoral Scene. Sale. Ant. Sils, Antwerp, March 21, 1882, No. 119. nob. A Shepherd and a Shepherdess. 20 inches by 17 inches. Sale. Britten Slee and others, London, March 25, 1901, No. 61. in. A MUSIC-PARTY. In front is a youth playing the flute. Near him, behind a table covered with a Persian carpet, a young woman wearing a dress cut low at the neck and rich jewels sits with a little dog on her lap and is singing from a music-paper in her left hand. Behind her a gentleman points with one hand to the music and holds the other to his lips. On the right is another woman leaning her right hand on the young woman's arm-chair. On the left a negro boy approaches, carrying in his right hand a straw-covered bottle and in his left a silver salyer with a glass. Canvas, 27 inches by 21 inches. In the collection of the Comte de Morny. Sales. John W. Wilson, Paris, April 27, 1874, No. 68. Baroness de Hirsch, Paris, June 17, 1904, No. 33. In the possession of the Brussels dealers J. and A. Le Roy. 112. A LADY SINGING AND A MAN PLAYING THE LUTE. Sm. 63. The figures are seen standing at a window, the sill of which is hung with a Persian carpet. On the right the man, in a red slashed coat, stands turned to the left ; with his left hand he holds up the neck of the lute. On the left the lady, seen in a three-quarter view to the right, sings from a music-book. She wears a gown cut low at the neck and has a plume on her head. In the right background is a curtain. [Possibly identical with 162^.] Signed in full on the right at foot, and dated 1665 ; panel, 17 inches by 13! inches. A replica was in the sale: Amsterdam, January 20, 1772, No. 167 (40 florins, Van der Dussen) ; it was in the market more recently. The author possesses a photograph of it, without knowing its present whereabouts. Engraved by E. G. Krtlger. In the La Bouexiere collection, Paris, from which Le Leu bought it in 1754 for Dresden. In the Dresden Gallery, 1908 catalogue, No. 1347; it was there in 1833 (Sm., who valued it at 210). 113. A SONG WITH HARPSICHORD ACCOMPANI- MENT. Sm. 62. In the middle of a handsome room a lady in an elegant white silk gown stands to the left at a harpsichord, and turns her head to the spectator. In the left foreground, close to the instrument, sits a cavalier in a black and gold costume, with his plumed hat on his knees ; he is singing from a music-book in his left hand and beats time with his right hand. To the right, behind the standing lady, sits another lady in blue. On the extreme right is a table covered with a Persian carpet ; behind it a boy, in profile to the left, is bringing refreshments on a salver.