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38 GERARD TER BORCH SECT. Canvas, i6 inches by 12^ inches. In the Hollandt collection, Brunswick, 1843 (Parthey, ii. 625). 95. A Young Lady and a Cavalier (or, The Attentive Cavalier). Sm. Suppl. 16. A young lady with fair curls, in a white satin gown, drinks from a large glass which an elegant and fashionably dressed page hands her on a tray. Near her is a large greyhound. Behind the lady is a cavalier in black, with a broad-brimmed hat and curls, who holds the edge of the tray with one hand and seems to have urged the lady to drink. On the right is a table with a red cloth, on which are a mirror and other objects. In the background is a bed, with red curtains drawn together. Canvas, 25 inches by ii inches. Engraved on wood by Gilbert. A copy (Sm. 31) on canvas, 26 inches by 22 inches ; "the background has been wholly repainted, and instead of its being the interior of a room as it once was, it now represents a garden scene and shrubbery, very coarsely done" (Sm.) was in the Sales. Tricot, Paris, 1793 (4000 francs). London, 1832 (136 : los.). Claude A. Ponsonby and others, London, March 28, 1908, No. 104 (108, Boehler). Sales. Abraham van Twist, Amsterdam, September n, 1822, No. 101. Baron Delessert, Paris, March 15, 1869 (30,000 francs) ; it was in this collection in 1842 (Sm.). 96. A Woman drinking. It is uncertain whether two or more of the following are identical : Sales. Amsterdam, October 8, 1700, No. 33 (60 florins 10). Amsterdam, May 13, 1707 (Hoet, i. 103), No. 10 (41 florins). D. Grenier, Middelburg, August 1 8, 1712, No. 43 (9 florins). Cornelis van Dijck, The Hague, May 10, 1713, No. 57 (31 florins). Amsterdam, June 10, 1789, No. 19 (with a " Lady writing a Letter," see 167 90 florins, Coders) canvas, 14 inches by 1 1 inches. Robit, Paris, 1801, Bryan's catalogue, No. 47 see Buchanan, ii. 67. In the Munro collection, London, 1854 (Waagen, ii. 137). Sale. Britten Slee and others, London, March 25, 1901, No. 91 17 inches by 13^ inches. 97- THE SMOKER. A young man with curly hair sits in profile to the right at a table in the front of a room, and lights a pipe at an earthenware charcoal pan. He wears a reddish-brown fur cap, a purplish- brown tunic with vermilion facings and yellow cuffs, and a broad yellow sword-belt. On the table is a broken pipe. In the background are a door and a window. Canvas, i6 inches by 13 inches. There are copies 1. In the collection of John G. Johnson, Philadelphia. 2. Panel, 16 inches by 13 inches. Exhibited at the Royal Academy Winter Exhibition, London, 1880, No. 51, and 1894, No. 53.