50 FRANS HALS SECT. lace wristbands. He presses his right hand to his side and leans his left hand, which holds his hat, on a table. In the right-hand top corner are the family arms. [Pendant to 155.] The first numeral in the age has been altered in the inscription below to 4, and the last numeral in the date to 9. It would be better to read 30 and 1620. The style of painting, which is similar to that of the earliest groups of marksmen at Haarlem (431-3), makes the date 1620 probable. Inscribed, "jETAT. SVjE. 40. 1629."; canvas, 54 inches by 40 inches. See Moes, Iconographia Bafava, No. 519, 2. Purchased from the Hofje van Beresteyn, Haarlem, 1884, for the Louvre (100,000 francs, with 155 and the Beresteyn family group). In the Louvre, Paris, 1902 catalogue, No. 2386. 155. CATHARINA BOTH VAN DER EEM, wife of Paulus Beresteyn. B. 10 ; M. 16. Three-quarter-length, life size. She is turned three-quarters left. She wears a lace cap, and a ruff trimmed with lace. She has a black dress with lace insertion in front and lace wristbands. Her left hand grasps her dress ; her right rests on the back of a chair. In the left-hand top corner is her coat of arms. [Pendant to 154.] Inscribed, "JET A.. SVM 40 1629." ; canvas, 54 inches by 40 inches. Purchased from the Hofje van Beresteyn, Haarlem, 1884, for the Louvre (100,000 francs, with 154 and the Beresteyn family group). In the Louvre, Paris, 1902 catalogue, No. 2387. 156. T. Blevet, Caligrapher. M. 18. Half-length. He faces three-quarters left. He has smooth hair and a pointed beard. He wears a flowered costume with a flat white lace-trimmed collar and white wrist- bands without lace. His right hand, which is alone visible, holds a pen. Inscribed, "^Etatis XLII. 1640." See Moes, Iconographia Batava, No. 713. Described from a print by Th. Matham ; the original is lost. 157. BODOLPHE. B. 55 ; M. 105. Three-quarter-length, life size. An old man sits in a high-backed chair, turned to the right. His face is in a three-quarter view ; he looks intently at the spectator. He holds his gloves in both hands. He wears a dark coat and cloak, a white ruff and a tall, broad-brimmed black felt hat. [Pendant to 158.] Signed on the right with the monogram, and inscribed, "AETAT SVAE 73 AN 1643 " ; canvas, 48 inches by 38^ inches. Exhibited by the London dealers T. Agnew and Sons, November and December 1906. Exhibited at the Hudson-Fulton Celebration, Metropolitan Museum, New York, 1909, No. 33. Sale. Odier, Paris, March 25, 1861. In the collection of Count Andre Mniszech, Paris. In the collection of J. Pierpont Morgan ; exhibited on loan in the Metro- politan Museum, New York. 158. MADAME BODOLPHE. B. 56 ; M. 1 06. Three-quarter- length, life size. An old woman sits in a carved chair, seen in full face,
