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5 i6 EGLON HENDRIK VAN DER NEER SECT. satin skirt. She holds a dish of peaches on her lap and has in her hand half a peach, which she offers to a little boy dressed in satin with a small white plumed hat. Behind the lady stands a gentleman in a dark costume, hat in hand ; he leans on the back of a black velvet chair. A chimney- piece projects between columns of red-veined marble. Very good, fine and delicate in treatment, one of the master's best pictures. " An exquisitely finished production " (Sm.). Panel, rounded at top, 14 inches by io inches. Sales. Amsterdam, November 30, 1772, No. 24. N. NieuhofF, Amsterdam, April 14, 1777, No. 142 (140 florins, Wubbels) ; measuring 13 inches by io inches. (Fiseau?) Amsterdam, August 30, 1797, No. 150 (130 florins, De Bosch) ; measuring 14 inches by II inches. De Sereville, Paris, January 21, 1812 (1500 francs, bought in); measuring 1 1 inches by 9^ inches. Martini, Paris, March 23, 1844, No. 31 ; measuring n inches by IO inches ; it was in this collection in 1842 (Sm.). 1610. A Family Portrait-Group. Exhibited at Amsterdam, 1845, No. 84. Then in the collection of F. de Wildt, Amsterdam. i6ib. Portrait-Group of a Noble Dutch Family. Panel, i6 inches by 28^ inches. In the collection of Prince zu Hohenzollern-Hechingen, Lowenberg, 1858 (Parthey, ii. 185). 162. Portrait of a Lady and Gentleman. They sit in a richly furnished room paved with slabs of black and white marble. The gentle- man wears a black velvet doublet with a large turned-down collar. His face is framed in his abundant hair, which falls on his shoulders. He leans his left hand on the back of the chair in which he reclines ; his right hand is on his knee. The lady wears a grey silk skirt under a black gown with a broad collar. Her hair is bound with ribbons. She holds a fan. On a table covered with a richly ornamented cover is a gilt dish holding a cut lemon, a peach, and a knife ; near the dish is a broad-brimmed felt hat. The back-wall is relieved by a white marble chimney-piece, above which hangs a landscape by Ruisdael. Most carefully finished. Panel, 29 inches by 26^ inches. Sales. Meffre the elder, Paris, February 25, 1845, No. 63. D. van der Schrieck of Louvain, Brussels, April 8, 1861, No. 68 (3500 francs, Laneuville). 163. Interior with a Woman, a Child, and a Young Girl. In the saloon of a mansion a lady in black sits holding the hand of a little girl in a red frock and a pinafore who stands on a footstool at her side. On the left stands a young girl in a white dress ; she leans on a table upon which are a mirror and articles of the toilet. Canvas, 19 inches by 17^ inches. Sale. Neven, Cologne, March 17, 1879, No. 158.