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 346 GERARD DOU SECT. na. The Magdalen in the Desert. In the possession of Von Peucker, Berlin, in 1863 (Parthey, i. No. 6). lib. The penitent Magdalen. M. 13. She is in a grotto, with a Bible, skull, crucifix, and scourge. On the ground are roots, onions, eatables, and other things. Panel, 14 inches by io| inches. Sale. Dogstrike, Berlin, April 13, 1887. 12. A HERMIT. Sm. 77 and Suppl. 78 ; M. 16. A hermit sits, half turned to the left, before a block of stone, and holds a crucifix in his clasped hands, which rest on an open Bible. To the left is an hour- glass, and behind it are a wallet and a basket. From the left upper corner a ray of light falls on the hermit's head, and illumines both a part of the vault in front of where he is sitting and a tree-trunk behind him to the right. He has a long beard, glasses on his nose, and a grey cowl. [Com- pare 23^.]. Signed in full on the cross of his rosary, and dated 1664; panel, i inches by io inches. A copy with alterations, made by Leermans, is in the Budapest gallery, No. 340. It is a pendant to the " Magdalen " in the Schamp d'Aveschoot sale, 1 840. [See 198.] Sales. Van Zwieten, The Hague, April 12, 1741, No. 67 (96 florins). Gerard Bicker van Zwieten, The Hague, April 4, 1755, No. 27 (144 florins). The dimensions correspond, but this picture was said to have " a fine landscape " background (see Hoet, ii. 463). J. P. Wierman, Amsterdam, May 18, 1762, No 30 (655 florins, Yver). Amsterdam, August 6, 1810, No. 25 (1310 florins, Texier, Gerbet & Co.). Sir Charles Bagot, London, June 17, 1836 (289). In the collection of Edward Gray ; purchased from his executors by Sm. before 1842. In the Van der Hoop collection, No. 41 ; it was there in 1842 (Sm.). Now in the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, 1904 catalogue, No. 797 (old No. 282). 13. THE HERMIT. Sm. 81, Suppl. 9; M. 17. A half-length. The hermit is turned slightly to the left, and bends over a block of stone, on which lies a crucifix. With a rosary clasped in his hands he is praying. The light falls on his bald head. He has a pointed beard. Behind him is a vault. [Compare the head with 27.] Panel, 10 inches by 7^ inches. Sales. Samuel van Huls, The Hague, September 3, 1737, No. 8 (145 florins). B. Kley, The Hague, May 10, 1781, No. I (170 florins, Van der Pot). Van der Pot, Rotterdam, 1808 (noo florins, J. M. Jorissen). Now in the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, 1904 catalogue, No. 798 (old No. 277), where it was in 1829 (Sm.).