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 ix FRANS HALS 89 sleeve is slashed underneath, showing the white shirt. Brownish-grey back- ground. Possibly painted in or after 1645. [See 307.] Signed on the right with the monogram ; canvas, 33^ inches by 26^ inches. Acquired by the Empress Catherine II. In the Hermitage Palace, St. Petersburg, 1901 catalogue, No. 772. 310. PORTRAIT OF AN OFFICER. B. 131 ; M. 138. Half-length. He faces three-quarters right, and looks at the spectator. He presses his right hand to his side. He has long brown hair, a short moustache, and imperial. He wears a broad-brimmed black felt hat, a buff coat with a cuirass, a broad silk sash over it, a lace collar, and ruffles. Behind him is a wooden wall with a window, through which are seen tree-tops and the sea. [See 307.] Canvas, 33^ inches by 26 J inches. Acquired by the Empress Catherine II. In the Hermitage Palace, St. Petersburg, 1901 catalogue, No. 773. 311. PORTRAIT OF A YOUNG MAN. B. 122. Half- length. He faces three-quarters left, and looks at the spectator. His right hand, holding a glove, is half-hidden in his cloak. He has long dark hair, a slight moustache, and an imperial. He is in black, with a close-fitting square white collar and wristbands. Signed on the left with the monogram ; canvas, 25 inches by 21 inches. Described and illustrated by Dr. W. Martin in the Burlington Magazine, xiv. (October 1908), p. 60 ; he would date it about 1640-5. Exhibited at Vienna, 1873, No. 38. Exhibited at the Hudson-Fulton Celebration, Metropolitan Museum, New York, 1909, No. 32. In the collection of Remi van Haanen, Vienna. Successively in the possession of the London dealers T. Lawrie, March 1898 ; the Paris dealer Bourgeois ; and the New York dealer L. Nardus. In the collection of P. A. B. Widener, Philadelphia. 312. PORTRAIT OF A MAN. M. 126. Half-length. He faces three-quarters right, and is apparently seated. He looks at the spectator. His right hand is at his breast ; the other is not shown. He has a moustache and imperial. He wears a broad-brimmed hat, a black velvet coat, a close-fitting white collar trimmed with lace, and lace wrist- bands. Signed on the left with the monogram, and dated 1630 in figures that look doubtful ; canvas, 30 inches by 24! inches. In the possession of the London dealer Martin Colnaghi. In the collection of the Marquis d'Aoust, Paris. In the possession of the Paris dealer F. Kleinberger. In the possession of the Paris dealer C. Sedelmeyer, " Catalogue of 100 Paintings," 1896, No. 1 8. In the collection of Mrs. Byers, Pittsburg. 313. PORTRAIT OF A MAN STANDING. 6.30; M. 143.