ix FRANS HALS 55 172. Rene" Descartes (1596-1650). A small portrait. It seems good, and is probably an original. In the Ny Carlsberg Glyptothek, Copenhagen. 173. Rene" Descartes. B. 40; M. 31. Half-length. The figure is in profile to the right ; the head is turned three-quarters right. Only the left hand is seen. It is not easy to understand how this hand can be holding the hat, as the tips of all five fingers are visible and the hat is not pressed against the body. The hair falls in long curls. He has a very small moustache and imperial. He is dressed in black with a close-fitting white collar. The picture is very weak, and might well have been painted by a copyist after Suyderhoef's print. Sooner or later, the original may come to light. Canvas, 30 inches by 27 inches. Engraved by J. Suyderhoef. A weak copy, reversed, is in the Weber Gallery, Hamburg, 1907 catalogue, No. 224 measuring nj inches by 9^ inches. In the Louvre, Paris, 1902 catalogue, No. 2383. 174. Rene Descartes. Loosely painted. Engraved by J. Suyderhoef. Exhibited at Leyden, 1850, No. 54 ; then in the possession of D. D. Sales. J. Smies, J. H. Knoop and others, Amsterdam, February 4, 1834, No. 44. Bijo, Amsterdam, May 14, 1839, No. 410 (10 florins, Roos) on canvas, 33 inches by 29 inches. P. de Leeuw and P. Barbiers, Amsterdam, July n, 1843, No. 165 on canvas, 32 inches by 28 inches. 175. Arnoud Jansz van Druivestein the elder (1577-1627), Burgomaster of Haarlem. M. 32. In a handsome black costume with a fine white collar. He has a very grave face, and holds his left hand on his breast. Canvas, 32 inches by 26 inches. Sale. Haarlem (?), August 10, 1785, No. 134 (25 florins, Wubbels). 176. CLAAS DUYST VAN VOORHOUT, Brewer, of the brewery "De Zwaan." B. 153; M. 32. Half-length, life size. His eyes and cheeks are very red. He wears a broad-brimmed hat, and leans his left hand on his hip. In the collection of Colonel Egremont Wyndham, Petworth, No. 383, in 1854 (Waagen, iii. 36). In the collection of Lord Leconfield, Petworth. 176*. Anthony van Dyck (1599-1641). See Houbraken's story of the painting of this portrait ; Houbraken, i. pp. 91-2. 177. Lionel Edgar, son of John Edgar of Framsden. In black with a white lace collar and wristbands, and slashed sleeves. 45 inches by 34 inches. Sale. London, April 2, 1900, No. 98.
