On the above catalogue M. Vanzype comments as follows:—
“The greater number of these pictures seem to have been recovered.
“The Milkwoman [No. 2] is, in all probability, the one hanging for so long in the Six collection.
“The Young woman playing the guitar [No. 4] is actually the picture belonging to Mr. Johnson, in Philadelphia. It has been in the Cremer collection at Brussels and in the H. Bischoffsheim collection in London.
“The Young woman at a harpsichord with a gentleman listening [No. 6] is no doubt the much-admired picture at Windsor Castle, where it is one of the treasures and is called The Music Lesson. It was sold at Amsterdam at the Roos sale, in 1820, for 340 florins.
“The Young woman taking a letter from a servant [No. 7] is at the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam, under the title The Letter. It was bought by the State, through the intervention of the Rembrandt Society and of M. Van Lennep, from M. Messcher Van Vollenhoven for 45,000 florins.
“The Drunken servant sleeping at a table [No. 8] is, in all probability, the picture which until just lately belonged to the Kahn collection in Paris, and of the authenticity of which there is no doubt. [This was bought by Mr. Altman in 1910.] Bürger possessed another picture, a servant sleeping in a kitchen, and he believed that this was the work sold in 1696. In his picture the figure is not leaning on the table. It is now in the Widener collection and in it the characteristic qualities of Vermeer are not to be found.
“A man and a young woman making music [No. 10] is probably the Singing Lesson of the Frick collection at Pittsburg.
“A soldier with a young girl who is laughing [No. 11] is Mrs. Joseph’s picture in London.
“The young lace-maker [No. 12] is the little chef-d’œuvre in the Louvre sold for 84 francs at the Muilman sale in 1813; 501 in 1817 at the Lapeyrière sale; 265 fls. at the Nagel sale in 1851, and in 1870 bought by M. Blockhuyzen, of Rotterdam, for 1270 frs.