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 xvin CASPAR NETSCHER 261 368. Portrait of a Lady. She is turned three-quarters left. She wears a green dress cut low at the neck, and leaving the left breast bare. Signed in full, and dated 1681. In the Palazzo Torrigiani, Florence ; noted by A. Bredius. 369. PORTRAIT OF A LADY IN A WHITE SATIN DRESS. Full length. She stands in front of columns with sculptured base. Beside her are a flower-pot and plant. [The lady is seen in full face. A dull reddish scarf is wound round her bosom, and falls over the right shoulder to reappear below the waist to the right. She has ringlets on her forehead and curls falling on her bare neck, with pearls in her ears and at her throat. Her right hand holds the scarf at her bosom. Her left hand is extended in front of her, pointing to an orange tree in a pot, with a relief of childish figures, which stands on the ground to the left. Behind to the right are columns ; to the left is a dark landscape under a cloudy night sky. Translator. ] Canvas, 34 inches by 34^ inches. In the collection of Archibald M'Lellan, Glasgow ; bought by the city in May 1856. In the Glasgow Art Gallery, 1911 catalogue, No. 689 (old No. 666). 370. PORTRAIT OF A LADY. Half-length. She wears a crimson dress, and stands beside a fluted column, with a basin of roses at her side. Wrongly described in the catalogue as "A Princess of Orange." [She is turned three-quartdrs left. She has ringlets on her forehead and curls falling on her bare neck, with pearls in her ears and at her throat. Her rich crimson dress shows the white chemisette at the bosom covered by a thin gauze scarf fastened in the centre with a jewelled clasp. The full white under-sleeves are pinned back at the elbows with similar clasps. Her left hand is raised to hold up a dull greenish-yellow wrap on her right shoulder. Her right hand is extended to touch the roses in a bowl on a table to the left. In the right middle distance is a rose-tree in bloom. In the left middle distance is a curtain. At the back are trees under a stormy sky, with a patch of blue sky to the right. The lady has a slightly Jewish cast of countenance. Translator.] "Painted with all his delicacy, in his later but still warmly coloured manner" (Waagen). Signed in full, and dated 1671 ; canvas, 17 inches by 15 inches. In the collection of Archibald M'Lellan, Glasgow ; mentioned in 1854 by Waagen, iii. 289, and iv. 459 ; bought by the city in May 1856. In the Glasgow Art Gallery, 1911 catalogue, No. 691 (old No. 668). 371. PORTRAIT OF A YOUNG LADY. Half-length. She has long curls and abnormally large eyes. She wears a white silk dress with a red sash and rich jewels. Copper, 3 inches by 2 inches. In the Gotha Museum, 1890 catalogue, No. 297. 372. Portrait of a Lady in White Silk. Half-length to the right, with the head inclined to the left. Her very fair hair falls in curls on her