xvm CASPAR NETSCHER 285 436. Portrait of a Lady. It is uncertain whether two or more of the following were identical : Sales. Jonas Witsen, Amsterdam, March 23/1717 (Hoet, i. 206), No. 28 (51 florins) comely and young. The Hague, May 3, 1729 (Terw. 6), No. 68 (115 florins) very good. Willem Six, Amsterdam, May 12, 1734 (Hoet, i. 419), No. 164 but No. 165 of the original catalogue (14 florins) ; a small picture. Amsterdam, April 27, 1740 (Hoet, ii. 2), No. 16 (60 florins) young ; very finely rendered. M. Terwesten, The Hague, September 20, 1757, No. 42 pleasing. Amsterdam, April 12, 1759, No. 112 (6 florins, with the pendant noted under 336). J. A. Sichterman, Groningen, August 20, 1764, No. 229. Amsterdam, June 5, 1765, No. 35 on copper ; good. The Hague, April 29, 1769, No. E. E. 7 (43 florins). S. Fokke, Amsterdam, December 6, 1784, No. 49 oval ; very fine. Amsterdam, December 5, 1785, No. 131 (2 florins, with pendant noted under 336, Asser). Amsterdam, April 9, 1818, No. 104 (5 florins 5, Eversdijk) pleasing. Rotterdam, April u, 1827, No. 88 (24 florins, Lamme). C. Piera, Amsterdam, September 7, 1829, No. 79 (4 florins, Hopman) on panel ; pleasing. Parks, Brussels, May 4, 1835, No. 240 full length. (Supplementary) Antwerp, September 7, 1846, No. 54. Exhibited at Leyden, 1850; two works, Nos. 179 and 180 ; then in the G collection. Sales. Antwerp, February 24, 1851, No. 71 young; on canvas. Daiwaille, Rotterdam, March 7, 1851, No. 175. A. Schaepkens, Maastricht, June 26, 1876, No. 91 ; half life size or half-length ; pendant to 344*2. 437. Portrait of a Lady in an Elegant Low Dress. Three- quarter length. She sits, seen almost in full face, on a stone bench, leaning her right elbow on a pedestal adorned with a relief. Her right forefinger is under the string of pearls fastened on the edge of her bodice. She holds another string of pearls in her left hand which lies in her lap. In the background is a landscape with architecture and a marble statue. Signed in full on the left ; canvas, i8| inches by 16 inches. Sales. The dowager Madame Roe'll, born Hodshon, Amsterdam, April 25, 1872, No. 15 (800 florins, Melville van Carnbee). Van Loon, Van Winter, and others, Amsterdam, February 26, 1878, No. 51. 437*7. Portrait of a Beauty of the Court of Louis XIV. or Charles II. as a Shepherdess. She reclines in a landscape, holding a shepherd's staff. At the back are sheep. Canvas, 13^ inches by 16 inches. Sale. P. C. Nahuys, born F. M. Hodgson, C. F. Royer, born Kerst, and others, Amsterdam, November 14, 1883, No. 117.
