i 9 2 CASPAR NETSCHER SECT. Panel, 13^ inches by io inches. Sale. B. Ocke, Leyden, April 21, 1817, No. 88 (100 florins, Kleynenbergh). 128. A Guard-Room with a Couple at Cards. In a casemate, with the light falling through an opening above, a young officer is playing cards with a comely and richly dressed young lady. Another officer speaks to her. At the back a maid-servant brings a dish. In front are a fine standard, a drum, armour, a sword, a pewter pot, broken pipes, and cards thrown down in disorder. Above is a green curtain, drawn along a copper rod. A masterpiece. Fine in expression, in lighting, and in handling. Panel, 18 inches by 14 inches. Sale. De Burtin, Brussels, July 21, 1819, No. 113 (1500 florins). 1280. Ladies and Gentlemen playing Cards. Finely rendered. Panel, io inches by 8 inches. Sale. A. Watering and others, Amsterdam, November 7, 1866, No. 105. 129. A CARD-PARTY. At a table in an interior two ladies sit at cards. A gentleman gives one of them some advice. On the back wall hang an oil-painting and a map. Of good quality. Canvas, 9^ inches by 14^ inches. Sale. A. Heymel, Berlin, November 5, 1889, No. 137. 1290. A Lady and Gentleman playing Draughts. 20 inches by i6| inches. Sales. (Probably) Abraham van Twist and others, Amsterdam, September n, 1822, No. 71. London, November 24, 1900, No. 44. 130. A MASQUERADE. Sm. 81, and Suppl. 34. At the counter of an apothecary's shop stand two young ladies in sixteenth- century dress ; the one on the left is in blue, and the one on the right in yellow. Farther to the right a gentleman masquerading as an old man turns to the left and offers the ladies a sausage. In front of him is a basin full of sausages on a tall stand. Between the two ladies and farther back a young man in a light red costume hung with bells lays one hand on the left shoulder of the lady in yellow, and offers her a sausage with the other. To the left, behind the table, stands a little old man with a cap, a mask, and a fur-trimmed garment, looking into a glass in which is a sausage. From the ceiling hang sausages and a pair of scales. In the right back- ground is a view into a bedroom. On the floor in front lie a ruler and a pair of compasses. The blue dress of the lady to the left is adapted from one of Holbein's well-known costume-studies in the Basel Museum. A very good picture. Signed in full on the right at foot, and dated 1668 ; panel, 18 inches by 24^ inches. Sales. Jan van Beuningen, Amsterdam, May 13, 1716 (Hoet, i. 202), No. 53 (980 florins). J. van Schuylenburch, The Hague, September 20, 1735 (Hoet, i. 450), No. 55 (655 florins).
