no FRANS HALS SECT. In the collection of Johann Friedrick Stadel. In the Stadel'sches Kunstinstitut, Frankfort -on -Main, 1900 catalogue, No. 174. 379. PORTRAIT OF A WOMAN. B. 39 j M. 96. Half- length ; in a painted oval. She is turned three-quarters left, and looks at the spectator. Her right hand is folded over her left. She wears a white cap, a black silk dress, and a ruff. [Pendant to 304.] Signed in the left centre with the monogram, and inscribed, " /ETA SV/E 53 (and under this) AN 1640" ; canvas, 33! inches by 27 inches. Exhibited at Vienna, 1873, No. 162. Salei. Amsterdam, June 21, 1797, No. 91 (20 florins, with pendant, Aiman). Lippmann von Lissingen of Vienna, Paris, March 16, 1876, No. 22 (5300 francs). Ed. Kums, Antwerp, May 17, 1898, No. 75 (25,000 francs, Ghent Museum). In the Ghent Museum, 1905 catalogue, No. 83. 380. PORTRAIT OF A LADY. M. 1 88. Almost three-quarter- length. Her hands are folded on her lap. She wears a cap and a ruff. She has the face of a healthy woman. Signed with the monogram, and inscribed, " /ETA SV/E 34 An 1635 " ; panel, 28 J inches by 21^ inches. Engraved by Courtry, probably in a sale catalogue. Exhibited at Dusseldorf, 1886, No. 131. In the collection of Baron Albert von Oppenheim, Cologne. 381. PORTRAIT OF A WOMAN. B. 132; M. 198. Half- length. She is turned three-quarters left, and looks at the spectator. Her hands are crossed before her, the right hand resting on the left. She wears a white lace-trimmed cap and a broad white ruff and wristbands. She has a very fat face. Unattractive and dirty in tone. Signed with the monogram ; canvas, 24^ inches by i8| inches. Bought from F. A. Keogh, 1876, for the Gallery (for 105). In the National Gallery, London, 1906 catalogue, No. 1021. 382. PORTRAIT OF A WOMAN STANDING. B. 145 ; M. 197. Almost three-quarter-length. She is turned three-quarters left, and looks at the spectator. Her left hand grasps her gold chain ; the right hand is extended before her. She wears a lace-trimmed cap, a black silk dress, a ruff, and lace wristbands. To the left is a coat-of-arms, which has been repainted. This is not, as has been assumed, a pendant to 287. It was painted about the years 1630-35. Inscribed near the coat-of-arms, " aeta suae 37 " j panel, 37 inches by 28 inches (within the frame). Exhibited at the Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, 1904, No. 284. In the collection of the Duke of Devonshire, London. 383. PORTRAIT OF A LADY STANDING. M. 199. Three-quarter-length. She is turned to the left, but looks at the spectator.
