ix FRANS HALS 77 In the La Caze collection, Paris. In the Bordeaux Museum, La Caze bequest, 1894 catalogue, No. 237. 263. PORTRAIT OF A MAN. B. 127 ; M. 176. Half-length. He is turned three-quarters right, with his head almost in full face, and looks at the spectator. He has long black hair, a slight moustache and an imperial. He wears a black hat, a black costume slashed with white on the right sleeve, and a close-fitting white collar. The left hand only is shown in part. The figure seems rather too big for the panel, which has apparently been cut down. Panel, 25^ inches by 18 inches. In the Esterhazy collection, Vienna. In the Museum of Fine Arts, Buda Pest, 1906 catalogue, No. 501 (old No. 277). 264. PORTRAIT OF A MAN. M. 152. Half-length. He is turned three-quarters right, with his head almost in full face, but inclined slightly to the left. His hair, parted in the middle, falls on his shoulders. He wears a dark-green cloak with a narrow white linen collar and a wrist- band on the right wrist, which is alone visible. The right hand leaning on the hip is cut off by the lower edge of the frame. It is rather dark and grey but broadly painted. Signed on the right near the bottom with the monogram ; canvas, 30 inches by i inches. Given by J. Prior to Cambridge University. In the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, 1902 catalogue, No. 150. 265. PORTRAIT OF A MAN STANDING. B. 99. Three- quarter-length. He seems about forty or forty-five years of age. He is turned three-quarters right, and looks at the spectator. His right hand, with the back upward, rests on his hip ; his left hand holds his tall black hat. He has short fair hair, a moustache and a pointed beard. He is dressed in black satin with a white collar edged with lace, lace ruffles, and an embroidered wristband. At top to the right hangs his coat-of-arms, bearing in the upper field a Greek cross and in the lower three water-lily leaves. Painted about 1620. [Pendant to 374.] Canvas on panel, 40 inches by 30^ inches. In the chief Kassel inventory of 1749, No. 687. In the Kassel Gallery, 1903 catalogue, No. 213. 266. PORTRAIT OF A MAN. B. 102; M. 172. Half-length; a fourth of life size. He is turned three-quarters left, and looks at the spectator. The right hand is not shown, but is obviously pressed to his side ; the left hand holds his white gloves. The left forearm is enveloped in his cloak. He has a slight moustache and imperial, and fair curls. He wears a broad-brimmed black hat of soft felt, and a black satin costume and cloak with a close-fitting white collar and a white wristband on the right hand. Painted about 1650. The light and shade suggest the influence of Rembrandt. [Pendant to 267.] Panel, 12 inches by 9 inches.
