ix FRANS HALS 391. PORTRAIT OF A DUTCHWOMAN STANDING. M. 195. Three-quarter-length. She is turned three-quarters left, and looks at the spectator. Her left hand rests on her hip j her right hand holds a glove. She wears a black silk dress with a flowered pattern, a white lace-trimmed cap, a broad ruff, and lace wristbands. Canvas on panel, 46 inches by 36 inches. In the possession of the Paris dealer C. Sedelmeyer, "Catalogue of 100 Paintings," 1899, No. 19. In the collection of the Marquis de Ganay, Paris. 392. PORTRAIT OF A WOMAN. B. 120; M. 104. The background with the signature appears to have been repainted, and the signature is probably false. The portrait is not so good as its pendant, 315. Signed with the monogram, and inscribed, "aetatis 46 suae 1643" > canvas, 31 inches by 26 inches. Given to Stettin by Frau Regierungsrat Woldermann. In the Stettin Town Museum, 1899 catalogue, No. 15. 393. PORTRAIT OF A WOMAN. M. 98. Seen to the hips j in a painted oval. She is turned three-quarters left, and looks at the spec- tator. She wears a very thin white cap, a black dress embroidered in front with gold, a ruff, and lace wristbands. Her hands are crossed in front of her, the right hand resting on the left. [Pendant to 316.] Inscribed, " JET AT SV^E 41 (and under this) AN 1638" ; canvas, 39 inches by 26 inches. Mentioned by Olaf Granberg, Les Collections Privees de la SuMe, 1886, i. p. 9, No. 10. In the collection of Queen Josephine. In the Royal Palace, Stockholm. 394. PORTRAIT OF A WOMAN STANDING. Half- length. She is turned to the left, and looks at the spectator. Her hands are folded in front of her ; the gloved left hand holds the right glove. She wears a black dress, a white lace-trimmed cap, collar, and wristbands. Brown background. The prevailing tone is grey. Painted about 1650. Canvas, 32 inches by 26 inches. Exhibited at Munich, 1897. Exhibited at the Royal Academy Winter Exhibition, London, 1902, No. 133. In the possession of the London dealers T. Agnew and Sons, who bought it in Vienna about the year 1898. In the possession, successively, of Dr. P. Mersch, Paris, and of F. Kleinberger, Paris. In the Van Gelder collection, Uccle, Brussels. 395. Portrait of a Young Woman. Seen to the waist. She faces three-quarters right. She wears a black dress with embroidered blue sleeves puffed with red. On her smoothly combed fair hair is a lace cap. A grey veil is lightly thrown over the cap, and held at her breast by her left hand. She wears a ruff, a chain, and a finger-ring. Dark-grey back- ground. The picture is hung too high for its authorship to be determined VOL. in *
