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 in GERARD DOU 457 Signed in full on the back of the chair ; panel, 1 1 inches by 9 inches, oval. Sale. Roothaan, Amsterdam, March 29, 1826 (2120 florins, with pendant, Roos). In the Steengracht collection, The Hague ; it was there in 1829 (Sm.). 364. PORTRAIT OF A YOUNG WOMAN. Sm. Suppl. 53 ; M. 215. A half-length of a plump young woman. The figure is turned slightly to the left, but the head faces the spectator. She wears a green velvet jacket trimmed with white fur over a white chemisette, a thin veil on the head, and pearl necklace and earrings. The hair falls in thick ringlets on the shoulders. The hands are not shown. This is not a portrait of the painter's wife, as the National Gallery catalogue states, inasmuch as Dou was never married. Signed in full ; oak panel, 5| inches by 4^ inches, oval. Sales. Paignon Dijonval, Paris, December 21, 1821 (Emmerson). Henry Fulton, London, 1834 (45 : 3s.). In the Wynn Ellis collection, London. Now in the National Gallery, London ; Wynn Ellis bequest 1876 ; 1906 catalogue, No. 968. 365. PORTRAIT OF A WOMAN. M. 216. A half-length of a thin, anxious-looking woman, almost in profile to the left. She wears a brown velvet gown trimmed with white swansdown, over a brown chemisette. Her hair is smoothly dressed underneath a large muslin cap. At the sales since 1800 she has been identified with Anna Maria van Schurman, but there is no evidence for this. Panel, 6 inches by 5 inches ; originally oval, then rounded at the top, now rectangular ; enlarged by the painter himself. In the possession of Winkler, Leipzig, 1773, according to an engraving by Kutner ; first mentioned in the Winkler collection in 1768. Sales. Corn. Ploos van Amstel, Amsterdam, March 3, 1800, No. 20 (71 florins, Van der Schley) ; see Moes, Iconographia afava, 7069, No. 4. Amsterdam, June 16, 1802 (75 florins, Coders). (Possibly) Comte F. de Robiano, Brussels, May i, 1837, No. 151 (180 francs), but this had a rounded top. Purchased from Horace Buttery, 1894. Now in the National Gallery, London, 1906 catalogue, No. 1415. 366. A WOMAN STANDING ON A BALCONY. Sm. 76 ; M. 246. A fair young woman, in a green cloak trimmed with ermine, stands facing left on a balcony. Over the balustrade hangs a Persian carpet. In the background is seen the Ley den " Blaauwpoort." Panel, 15 inches by 12 inches ; originally much smaller, but enlarged by the artist himself. In the De Bye collection, Leyden, 1665, No. 24. Engraved in the Orleans Gallery. Sale. Due d'Orleans, London, 1798 (315). Presented by Prince Liechtenstein to the Rudolphinum, 1899. Now in the Rudolphinum, Prague.