164 ADRIAEN VAN OSTADE SECT. He sits, facing the spectator, to the left of a table covered with papers and books. He is reading a paper which he holds in his left hand. His spectacles are in his right hand which rests on the arm of his chair. He wears a purple dressing-gown over a black velvet coat, and a black cap on his grey hair. Behind the table is a blue screen. In the left background four steps lead up to the half-open entrance door, through which is seen a passage with a window. On the partition which runs diagonally towards the back is a shelf. [Compare 73.] Signed in full on the paper in the man's hand, and dated 1680 ; panel, 14 inches by n inches. In a famous Parisian collection, according to the Boymans sale catalogue. Sale. Boymans, Utrecht, August 31, 1811, No. B. 72. In the Boymans Museum, Rotterdam, 1907 catalogue, No. 230 (old No. 217). 740. A Lawyer. By Ostade and Dusart. Sale. Cornells Dusart, Haarlem, August 21, 1708, No. 39. 74/>. A Lawyer in his Study. [Pendant to 79^.] Sale. Amsterdam, October 10, 1742 (Hoet, ii. 69), No. 43 (38 florins). 74<r. A Lawyer reading. n inches by 9 inches. Sale. Count van Wassenaar-Obdam, The Hague, August 19, 1750 (Hoet, ii. 292), No. 30 (245 florins). 75. A Doctor of Law. Sm. 127. An old man sits in his study reading a paper which he holds in one hand ; the other hand rests on the arm of his chair. He wears a brown robe over a black vest, and a black hat. Beside him is a table, on which are papers, an ink-pot, and a book ; bundles of papers hang on the wall behind him. [Possibly identical with 70. Pendant to 78.] Panel, about 12 inches by 9 inches. Engraved by Anthony Walker, about 1760, when in the collection of Alderman Beckford of London. Sa/f.W. Beckford, Fonthill Abbey, Bath, June 28, 1802 (50). 75*7. A Lawyer in his Study. Sale. London, June 13, 1807, No. I (21). 76. A Dutch Advocate. Sm. Suppl. 67. An elderly man with a slight beard sits reading a paper which he holds in both hands, leaning his elbows on a table. He wears a black cloak over a tawny yellow jacket, and a black hat. [Pendant to log/.] Panel, 7 inches by 5 inches. Imported into England, 1838, by Chaplin (Sm.). 76*. A Man in Lawyer's Dress near a Window. Sale. J.. Harris, London, 1872 (105, Brown). 77. A Lawyer in his Study. Sm. 121 ; Suppl. 61. He sits in an
