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 358 GERARD DOU SECT. leans his right arm on a table and looks sideways. He holds an open letter. Signed with the monogram ; panel, 10 inches by 8 inches. Sale. Wyl von Wymetal and others, Cologne, June 14, 1895, No. 73. 46. AN OLD MAN. M. 82. Rembrandt's father, seen in profile to the left, sits at a table with a blue cloth. He lights his pipe at a charcoal-pan. On the table are a jug, a violin, and a globe. In the fore- ground are a book, a calabash, and a basket. In the background, to the left, is a bookcase ; to the right is the hearth. This is an early work of 1630-35 ; the doubts expressed by Frimmel and Bredius as to its genuineness are not justified. [Cf. 59.] Panel, 19 inches by 25 inches. In the Nostitz collection, Prague, 1906 catalogue, No. 52 (old No. 275). 47. A STUDENT IN HIS STUDY. M. 83. In a homely room, with stone walls and a wooden floor, a young man sits to the left near a window, the casement of which is opened inwards. He wears a cap and a fur-trimmed mantle, and is lighting his pipe at a brazier, which he holds in his left hand. Jn front of him is a table, with a cloth that hangs down to the floor j on it are an open book, a globe, a violin, and other things. Behind the table is a bookcase ; to the right of it is a pillar, against which stands an arm-chair. A bird-cage hangs at the window. On the floor are a jug, two books, and a wine-glass. An early work. Panel, 10 inches by 13 J inches. See Kunstchronik, May 9, 1889, p. 482. Sale. (Possibly) Amsterdam, March 6, 1708 "A Student in his Room smoking." In the collection of Prince G. Czartoryski, Vienna. 47*. An Old Man with a long Beard. M. 84. He sits by the fire warming his hands. In the possession of Spiering, at The Hague, between 1637 and 1641 (Sandrart, ii. 321). 48. A Man and Woman praying. Sm. 21 ; M. 5. In a room lighted from an open window to the left, an old woman (Rembrandt's mother) and an old man sit at prayer. The woman sits facing left on a low stool, the man facing right in an arm-chair. Between them is a low table with a cloth, on which are a loaf and a knife. On the back wall hang a map and a basket. To the right is the hearth, with a kettle hanging over the fire. In the left foreground are a pump and a kettle. Known as " Our Father." Panel, 26 inches by 23 inches. Sales. (Possibly) Amsterdam, April 20, 1701, No. 10 (270 florins). Govert Looten, Amsterdam, March 31, 1729, No. 3 (150 florins). B. da Costa, The Hague, August 1 3, 1 764, No. 2 1 (400 florins ; see Hoet, ii. 469). Rotterdam, August 10, 1810 (228 florins). J. A. van Dam, Dordrecht, June i, 1829, No. 33 (610 florins, Lamme).