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 i 4 o GERARD TER BORCH SECT. Sale. Parks, Brussels, May 4, 1835, No. 204. 461. Portrait of a Dutch Gentleman with his Wife and Child. Sm. Suppl. 17. The man, wearing a dark costume with a white linen collar and cuffs, sits on the left, with his left hand on his knee ; an open book lies on the table before him. Opposite him stands his wife, wearing a yellow silk bodice and a white satin skirt ; she has a rose in her right hand and holds her child with the left. They look at some object not visible in the picture. Canvas, 21 inches by 18 inches. In the collection of the Due de Berry, Paris. Imported into England by the London dealer Hume before 1842. 461 a. A Family Group. Exhibited at Amsterdam, 1845, No. 82. In the collection of F. de Wildt, Amsterdam. 461^. A Supposed Portrait of the Painter and his Son. (Ter Borch had no son !) In the collection of Prince Liechtenstein, Vienna, 1859 (Parthey, ii. 626) ; but not mentioned in the 1885 catalogue or later. 46 1 c. A Company of Thirty-eight Persons in a Park. Signed in full; canvas, 56 inches by 40^ inches. In the Ritterich collection, Leipzig, 1860 (Parthey, ii. 624). 461^. A Family Group. i6J inches by 14 inches. In the collection of Vicomte de Jessaint, Paris. Sale. B. de S, Paris, May 4 and 5, 1865, No. 197. 462. A Family Group. The parents and three children in a room. The mother, wearing an olive-green skirt and a black robe, sits on the left between her two daughters, one of whom is in white silk, while the other wears an orange dress. The father is in black, with a white collar and a white hat, from under which his long chestnut-brown hair hangs down. He stands in the centre, conversing with his son, who stands farther to the right. The son is bare-headed and wears a black costume adorned with ribbons. Signed on the right at top with the monogram ; canvas, 30^ inches by 34 inches. Sales. Stevens, Paris. Neven, Cologne, March 17, 1879, No. 209. 463. A COWSHED. Two brown and white spotted cows in a shed. A maid-servant, whose dress has brown, bluish-green, and red tones, milks the cow seen in profile to the right. Around are other cows, with utensils, such as pails, a ladder, and an axe. Painted in a fine silvery tone. The cows have something human in their expression. Closely related to 464 (Wanas) and 19 (Berlin). Signed on the chopping-block to the left with the monogram ; panel, inches by 18 inches.