528 PIETER DE HOOCH SECT. his back to the door, is a gentleman holding a glass of wine. Through a passage a ship flying Dutch colours is seen at anchor. On the wall to the right are two pictures. It is dark in tone. Signed at the bottom to the right " P. D. Hoogh " ; canvas, 22 inches by i8| inches. Exhibited at the Royal Academy Winter Exhibition, at Burlington House, London, 1886, No. 59, and at the Guildhall, London, 1892, No. 71. Sales. G. Schimmelpenninck, Amsterdam, July 12, 1819 (200 florins). C. S. Roos, Amsterdam, August 28, 1820 (280 florins). In the collection of the King of Bavaria in 1826. Sale. Sir W. Knighton, in London, May 21, 1885 (105). Now in the collection of Mr. J. P. Heseltine, London. 187. PARTY AT A TABLE. De G. 47. In a room hung with gilt leather the principal figure, a man with a pipe, is seated to the left in profile. Behind the table sit two women with a boy between them. One holds a glass of sack ; the other has a jacket of blue, which is the prevailing colour in the picture. To the left is a window. To the right is an open door, by which a figure is leaving a room ; beyond, is an old man. The floor is paved with black and white tiles. By the wall stands a cabinet of brown wood and ebony the same cabinet that is represented in the Duke of Buccleuch's picture (112). Above it hangs a picture of nude lovers embracing. This is a very late work. Signed on the chair " P D HOOCH " ; canvas, 22| inches by 26^ inches. Probably from the Everill collection. Now in the collection of Mrs. Joseph, London. 188. INTERIOR, WITH FIVE FIGURES. Sm. 60. A woman sits by a table, holding a child to her breast ; another stands beside her in front of the table. On the other side of the table stands a servant- girl, with a dog beside her. A man, standing in the right-hand corner of the room with his back to the spectator, looks into a mirror. Two persons are conversing in an anteroom, through the window of which is seen the distance. Canvas or panel, 26| inches by 23 inches. Waagen (iv. 165) says that the picture is by Michiel van Musscher. Sales. D. van Dijl, in Amsterdam, November 22, 1813 exhibited till January- 10, 1814 No. 69 (155 florins). Anthonie Meynts, in Amsterdam, July 15, 1823, No. 46 (200 florins, Van den Berg). In the collection of Mr. Abraham Robarts, London, in 1833 (Sm.) ; now in that of Mr. A. J. Robarts, London. 189. REFUSING THE GLASS. Sm. 21 ; de G. 52. Four persons are assembled in a room. A man dressed in black, like a cavalier, offers a glass of wine to a young lady in red, who faces the spectator ; she makes a gesture of refusal. Behind them is a table ; in the back- ground to the right is the chimney-piece. To the left a boy in grey holds a jug in his right hand. A gentleman in a grey cloak, standing behind the table with his back to the spectator, looks into a mirror. In
