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 ii GABRIEL METSU 329 before a table covered with a Turkey carpet, and holds up a glass to the light ; a book, a violin, and a bottle are on the table. Panel, 9 inches by 6 inches. Compare Moes, Iconographia Batava, 5005, No. 1 6. Sales. Smeth van Alphen, Amsterdam, 1810 [according to Sm., but not in the sale catalogue]. Robert de St. Victor, Paris, November 26, 1822 (527 francs). 230*2. A Portrait of the Artist. Sm. 118. A portrait of a man of about thirty-six, in a three-quarter view, seated at a table and lighting his pipe at a charcoal-pan. He wears a brown coat with large buttons, full breeches, a broad limp collar, and a broad-brimmed hat. On the table are a bottle, a glass, and a paper of tobacco. Panel, 9 inches by 8 inches. [Possibly identical with 225.] Engraved by Pether. Compare Moes, Iconographia Batava, 5005, No. 1 1. In size and details this corresponds with " The old Soldier " in the Wacht- meister collection (201), but that is painted on copper. Compare also "The Cavalier smoking" in the Czernin collection (203); but there the man is not lighting his pipe. 231. A Portrait of Metsu's Wife. Sale. Pieter van Buytene, Delft, October 29, 1748, No. 19 (49 florins, with pendant). Pendant to 227, "A Portrait of the Artist." 232. Metsu's Wife. She is seated in profile, laying one hand on her bosom and holding a fan in the other. 8 inches by 7 inches. [Pendant to 229.] Sale. J. van der Marck, Amsterdam, August 25, 1773, No. 426. Pendant to No. 425. 233. A Portrait of the Artist's Mother, Jacquemijntje Garniers. 29! inches by 24! inches. In the collection of Lord Radstock. Sale. E. W. Lake, London, 1845 (17 : 173., Nieuwenhuys). 234. A Portrait of Jacquemijntje Garniers (who died before 1658), Wife of Guilliam Fremault and then of Jaques Metsu, Town Midwife of Ley den. Dated 1635, according to the sale catalogue ; but Metsu was then a child of five or six. Compare Moes, Iconographia Batava, 2631, No. 3 ; but he errs in saying that this picture as well as "the portrait of Metsu's wife" (231) was in the Buytene sale. Sale. Baron de Beurnonville, Paris, May 9, 1881. 235. A Supposed Portrait of Metsu's Mother. A woman sits at an easel, holding a brush in her right hand and a palette in her left, and seems to look round at her model. 5 inches by 4 inches. Compare Moes, Iconographia Batava, 2631, No. 2. Sales. J. van der Marck, Amsterdam, August 25, 1773, No. 427. Tabourier, Paris, June 20, 1898, No. 174.