It was this picture, in one of its replicas, that Goethe describes in his _Elective Affinities_: a description which procured for it the probably inaccurate title "Parental Advice".
We have a fine Terburg in our National Gallery--"The Music Lesson"-- and here too is his "Peace of Munster," which certainly was a great feat of painting, but which does not, I think, reproduce his peculiar characteristics and charm.

These may be found somewhere between "The Music Lesson" and the portrait next the Vermeer in the smallest of the three Dutch rooms.

Even more ingratiating than "The Music Lesson" is "The Toilet" at the Wallace Collection.

Terburg might be called a pocket Velasquez--a description of him which will be appreciated at the Ryks Museum in the presence of his tiny and captivating "Helena van der Schalcke," No.

573, one of the gems of the Cabinet pieces (see opposite page 290), and his companion pictures of a man and his wife, each standing by a piece of red furniture--I think Nos.