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 xvm CASPAR NETSCHER 265 her right hand on a stone balustrade. With her left hand she holds a wrap wound round her head. Her face is turned three-quarters left. She wears a dress embroidered with gold. Beyond to the right is open country. Signed in full, and dated i6[6 ?]j the third figure is doubtful, but, to judge from the costume, is most probably a 6 ; 13 inches by io| inches. In the Koucheleff Besborodko collection, St. Petersburg, 1886 catalogue, No. 54. 390. PORTRAIT OF A FAIR LADY OF RANK. Three- quarter length. She sits, turned three-quarters left, beside a brown stone fountain, and takes up one of the sprays of rose which lie on the base of the fountain. She wears a low-cut dress of blue silk, over a white chemisette, and has jewelled clasps at her bosom and on her shoulders. With her left hand she holds a brownish-yellow silk wrap, falling from her right shoulder over her left arm. There are pearls in her ears and hair and at her throat. Her head, neck, and arms are bare. In the background to the right is a yellowish wall. To the left, behind the fountain which is adorned with a childish figure, is a garden with an arcade and niches for statues. Dark blue sky with grey clouds. Signed in full on the base of the fountain, and dated 1683 ; canvas, i8| inches by 19 inches. Sale. Baron Schonborn, Amsterdam, April 16, 1738 (Hoet, i. 509), No. 37 but No. 38 of the original catalogue (50 florins). In the collection of F. ]. O. Boymans, Utrecht. In the Boymans Museum, Rotterdam, 1907 catalogue, No. 216. 391. Portrait of a Young Lady feeding a Parrot. She wears a white satin dress and a bright red silk jacket trimmed with ermine, and sits turned to the left at a table covered with an embroidered cloth, on which stands a tall bird-cage. A grey parrot with a red tail sits on a casket, between his cage and his mistress, and bends forward cautiously to take a dainty from the lady's right hand. Behind the lady to the right is a wooden worsted-holder, with a round plaited basket on the floor near it. In the background to the left is a dark green bed-curtain. According to the catalogue, this is a copy. Copper, 13 inches by loj inches. In the Schloss, Ludwigslust, 1821 catalogue, No. 24. In the Schwerin Museum, 1882 catalogue, No. 734. 392. PORTRAIT OF A LADY. Three -quarter length. She sits, seen in full face, in a garden, beside a tall vase, adorned with reliefs, which stands to the right. She wears a low-cut dress of grey silk. Her left hand, grasping her loose blue wrap, is at her bosom ; with her right hand she breaks off a rose. Characteristic but not specially fine. Canvas, 2o| inches by 17^ inches. In the Berlin Museum, which acquired it in 1 86 1 and transferred it in 1884 to Stettin. In the Stettin Town Museum, 1899 catalogue, No. 30. 393. PORTRAIT OF A LADY. She sits to the right, but turns her head to the left. She wears a low-cut dress ; over her right arm falls