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 224 CASPAR NETSCHER SECT. 240. MADAME DE MONTESPAN WITH HER IN- FANT SON, THE DUG DE MAINE (born 1670). She wears a blue and gold flowered gown, and sits, playing the harp, on a globe beside a table on which lies an open music-book. To the left her infant son, a year old, who is dressed in a blue frock, sits at her feet, playing the guitar. In the background to the left is a park, and to the right are a column with reliefs and a curtain. Beside the figures on the left are an anvil, a pair of scales, and a hammer. See note to 221. Possibly 243 is a replica. Signed in full, and dated 1671 ; copper, 19 inches by 14^ inches. Acquired in 1742 from the Dubreuil collection, Paris. In the Dresden Gallery, 1908 catalogue, No. 1351. 241. MADAME DE MONTESPAN. Full length, turned to the left. She sits at the entrance to a park. Beside her to the left a young negro holds on his right knee a basket of flowers, towards which the lady stretches out her right hand. In her left hand, lying on her lap, is a half- finished garland. She wears a brown silk dress, cut low at the neck, and a blue wrap. In the left background is a park with statues in evening light. See note to 221. Signed in full, and dated 1675 ; canvas, 21 inches by 15 inches. Exhibited at Leipzig, 1889, No. 162. In the Clauss collection, Leipzig. In the collection of A. Dtirr, Leipzig. 242. Madame de Montespan. Full length ; seated. She wears a handsome dark blue velvet dress trimmed with ermine. A maid-servant in red hands her a basket of fruit. Three little dogs play at her feet. See note to 221. Canvas, 28 inches by 2o| inches. In the collection of Lady Wantage, Lockinge, 1905 catalogue, No. 163. 243. Madame de Montespan as St. Cecilia, with her Son. She sits playing the harp at a little table. At her feet her son, the Due de Maine, sits playing the mandoline. The anvil, the hammer, the pair of scales, and the celestial globe upon which the lady sits are in allusion to the musical discoveries of Pythagoras and his fancied harmony of the spheres. It is uncertain whether this is an original ; it may be a replica of 240. See note to 22 1. In the Bryan collection. In the collection of the New York Historical Society, 1908 catalogue, No. SI?- 243*7. Madame de Montespan as Flora. Full length. See note to 221. 48^ inches by 38 inches. Sale. Mrs. Maberley, London, 1877 (28 : 75.) see Art Sales, ii. 311. 244. MADAME DE MONTESPAN. Half-length. She wears a handsome white fancy dress, with a yellow wrap lined with blue. She