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 364 GERARD DOU SECT. 63. THE ASTRONOMER. M. 49. He has a white beard, and wears a cap, a fur-trimmed cloak, and a chain. In his left hand, which rests on a celestial globe, he holds a pair of compasses. The figure is a half-length turned three-quarters right. Signed in full ; panel, 6| inches by 5! inches. See A. Vesme, " Sul acquisto futto da C. Em. iii. . . . della quadreria del Pr. Eugenic di Savoia." In the collection of Prince Eugene. Now in the Regia Pinacoteca, Turin, 1899 catalogue, No. 375 (old No. 435)- 63*7. An Astrologer. 11 inches by 9 inches. Sale. Hendrik van der Vugt, Amsterdam, April 27, 1745, No. 9 (21 florins). 63^. An Astronomer. M. 50. He sits in a room at a table with a coloured cloth on which is a globe. There is a red curtain. [Possibly identical with 63^.] Panel, 15^ inches by 13^ inches. Sales. Amsterdam, May 8, 1769 (200 florins). Castell, Hamburg, July 21, 1824. 63^. An Astronomer at a Window. M. 52. 12 inches by 8 inches. Sales. Earl of Clare, London, 1864 (703 : los.). Delafield, London, April 29, 1870 (^798). London, April 7, 1876 (714). 63^. An Astronomer. M. 51. He sits, wearing a monk's cowl, at a table covered with books and charts, and casts a horoscope. Signed in full on the edge of the table ; panel, 15^ inches by inches. Sale. Jakobi-Kreutzer, Frankfort-on-the-Main, May 8, 1896. 64. THE OPERATION. M. 96. The scene is a large homely room with a wooden floor ; to the right are a staircase and an open door ; in the centre is a table upon which lie scissors, instruments, and a brass bowl. To the left near the window a peasant sits in an arm-chair, his face contorted with pain. An old doctor, wearing a cap and a long fur- trimmed cloak, is operating on the peasant's head. An old woman in the left foreground looks on anxiously. An assistant holding a pan is behind the table. At the back is a stand of pots and bottles. It is an early work in the style of Sir F. Cook's picture (312). The doctor is of the same type as Rembrandt's father, the woman as his mother, the assistant as Rembrandt himself. Panel, 15 inches by 18 inches. Exhibited at Leyden, 1906. Purchased from Duval of Geneva in 1820 by Guillaume Favre. Now in the collection of Leopold Favre, Geneva.