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 76 FRANS HALS SECT. Signed on the right with the monogram; panel, i6| inches by 12^ inches. See Moes, Iconographia Batava, No. 6034 identified there as a portrait of Frans Post. Exhibited at Berlin, 1906, No. 48. Sale. J. van der Marck, Amsterdam, August 25, 1773, No. 441 there identified as a portrait of Frans Post. In the collection of Bononi Cereda, Milan. In the possession of the London dealers P. and D. Colnaghi, London, who exhibited it in 1896, No. 21. In the collection of Oscar Huldschinsky, Berlin. 259. PORTRAIT OF A BEARDLESS MAN. B. 71 ; M. 165. Said to be a portrait of the painter. Half-length. He is turned three-quarters right, but looks at the spectator. The hands are not shown. He has long hair and wears a low hat. He is in grey with a flat white collar. Grey background. Signed j panel, 14 inches by 10 inches. Sales. G. Rothan, Paris, May 29, 1890, No. 50 (6500 francs). Baron K&nigswarter of Vienna, Berlin, November 20, 1906, No. 34 (29,000 marks). In the collection of Marcus Kappel, Berlin. 260. PORTRAIT OF A YOUNG MAN STANDING. M. 167. He is turned three-quarters right, almost in profile. He looks with a smile at the spectator. His right hand rests on his side ; his left holds the gloves. He is in black with a broad ruff and a tall pointed hat. Very early j about 1610-12. Oval panel, 10 inches by 7 inches. Exhibited in Berlin, 1890, No. 78 ; then regarded by several experts as a Thomas de Keyser. In the collection of Ludwig Knaus, Berlin. 261. PORTRAIT OF A GENTLEMAN. M. 158, 168.- Half-length. He is turned three-quarters right, with his head seen in full face, and looks at the spectator. He is in black with a plain white collar with two tassels. His left hand, holding dark gloves, is at his breast ; the right hand is not shown. Panel, 22 inches by 17 inches. Sale. H. Pickersgill Cunliffe, London, May 9, 1903, No. 100 (892 : los., Simmons). In the collection of Paul von Schwabach, Berlin, since about 1906. 262. PORTRAIT OF A MAN. B. 82 ; M. 128. Half-length ; he faces the spectator. He is in black, with a close-fitting white collar, and wears a hat. His right hand is on his breast. Brownish. Boldly modelled and loosely painted. The head is in strong relief. The shadows on nose and cheek are rather black. Inscribed at right to the top, " ^ETATIS SVJE 2 (and under this) AN 1632 (with a third line forged) FRANZ HAALS PINXIT " j canvas, 24 inches by 20 inches.