ix FRANS HALS I09 three-quarters left, and looks at the spectator. Her left arm hangs at her side, the hand grasping the seam of her dress ; her right hand rests on the back of a chair. She wears a lace cap, a ruff, a shiny silk dress, a jacket of lacquer-red with yellow spots, a sleeveless cape of black figured taffeta, and lace wristbands. She has a golden girdle and bracelets. In the left upper corner is a coat-of-arms, bearing three swans swimming to the right. Dark-grey background. Painted about 1620. [Pendant to 265.] Canvas on panel, 40^ inches by 32^ inches. In the chief Kassel inventory of 1749, No. 688. In the Picture Gallery, Kassel, 1903 catalogue, No. 214. 375. PORTRAIT OF A LADY STANDING. B. 60 ; M. 187. Three-quarter-length. She is seen almost in full face, but turned slightly to the left. She wears a rich dress. Her left arm hangs at her side j her right hand holds her gloves. Inscribed, " ^ETA SV^ 28 /and under this) AN 1634"; canvas, 44 inches by 32 inches. In the collection of Comte Andre Mniszech, Paris. In the possession of the Paris dealer F. Kleinberger. In the collection of A. de Ridder, Cronberg, near Frankfort-on-Main. 376. PORTRAIT OF A YOUNG WOMAN. M. 200 and 203. Half-length ; in a painted oval. She is turned to the left, but looks at the spectator. Her hands are folded. She wears a black dress, a broad flat collar, and lace wristbands. The flesh tones on the face are dirty ; otherwise this is a good picture, broadly painted. Canvas, 30 inches by 23 inches or 27 inches by 22 inches, according to the Berlin catalogue. Acquired by the Berlin Gallery, 1841, No. 8oiJ ; and transferred to Dusseldorf in 1884. In the Royal Academy of Art, Dusseldorf, 1901 catalogue, No. 217. 377. PORTRAIT OF A WOMAN STANDING. M. no. Three -quarter-length. She is turned three-quarters left, and looks at the spectator. Her hands are in front of her ; the bare right hand, holding a fan, rests on the gloved left hand. She has long fair hair, with a small black cap. She is in black, with a triple thin white tulle collar round her shoulders, a ribbon bow at her breast, and white lace-trimmed wristbands. Grey-green background. [Pendant to 274.] Canvas, 46 inches by 34 inches. Presented by William M'Ewan, 1885. In the Scottish National Gallery, Edinburgh, 1900 catalogue, No. 39. 378. PORTRAIT OF A LAUGHING WOMAN. B. 109; M. 100. Half-length. She is turned three-quarters left, and looks at the spectator. She holds both hands in front of her ; in the left hand is a handkerchief. She wears a white cap, a ruff, a black dress, and lace wrist- bands. [Pendant to 276.] Signed in the left centre with the monogram, and inscribed, " JET AT SVJE 44 (and under this) AN 1638 " ; panel, 37! inches by 28 inches.
