90 FRANS HALS SECT. Almost a three-quarter-length. He faces three-quarters right, and looks at the spectator. His right hand is pressed to his side ; his left hand, with a ring on the ring-finger, is at his breast. He has brown hair, a brown moustache, and large pointed beard. He wears a black silk costume and a cloak of the same material hanging from the left shoulder and wound round the waist. Yellowish-grey background. Painted about 1640. [Pendant to 410.] Canvas, 46^ inches by 35^ inches. Sales. Rotterdam, October 18, 1843, No. 24 (190 florins, with pendant, Lamme). A. de Beurs Stiermans and others of Hamburg, Rotterdam, April 23, 1845, No. 48 (100 florins, with pendant, Lamme). B. A. C. de Lange van Wijngaarden, Rotterdam, April 22, 1846, No. 92. Mestern, Hamburg, 1865 (bought for the Boymans Museum). In the Boymans Museum, Rotterdam, 1907 catalogue, No. 106. 314. Head of a Young Man. He faces right, but looks at the spectator. His lips are parted. He has long hair. He is in brown, with a dark-brown cap. Panel, 15 inches by 13 inches. In the collection of W. A. Coats, Skelmorlie Castle, Scotland, No. 17. 315. PORTRAIT OF A MAN. B. 119; M. 103. Half-length; life size. His right hand is at his breast. He has a short moustache and pointed beard. He is in black, with a close-fitting collar trimmed with lace. Broad and loose in style. [Pendant to 392.] Canvas, 31 inches by 26 inches. Presented by Frau Regierungsrat Woldermann. In the Stettin Town Museum, 1899 catalogue, No. 14. 316. PORTRAIT OF A HUMPBACKED MAN. M. 97.- He is seen to the hips ; in a painted oval. He faces three-quarters right, but looks at the spectator. His right hand is at his breast ; his left hand holds a yellow leather purse. He has fair hair, and a slight chestnut-brown moustache and pointed beard. He wears a broad-brimmed black hat, a black coat, a close-fitting white ruff, and lace ruffles. It is extraordinarily true to life. The man looks like a consumptive. [Pendant to 393.] Inscribed, " jETAT SV^E 28 (and under this) AN 1638 " ; canvas, 39 inches by 26 inches. Mentioned by Olaf Granberg, Les Collections Privees de la Suede, 1886, i. 8, No. 9. In the collection of Queen Josephine. In the Royal Palace, Stockholm. 317. HEAD OF A MAN. He is in profile to the left, and has long hair. He wears a dark-red cap and a white collar. Circular panel, 10 inches in diameter ; the grain of the wood runs diagonally. In the collection of L. Nardus, Suresnes.
