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 266 CASPAR NETSCHER SECT. a wrap which she holds up with her right hand at her bosom, while she holds the other end on her lap with her left hand. Her right elbow rests on a Persian carpet. Behind her is a curtain ; to the right is a landscape. The composition corresponds with 191 (Rijksmuseum), but the face is different and the curls hang down to the shoulders, in contrast to that picture. Pendant to the replica, also at Stuttgart, of 176. Signed in full, and dated 1682 according to Frimmel, the signature and date are forged ; canvas, 19^ inches by 15^ inches. Acquired about 1767, and in the Ludwigsburg Gallery till about 1849. In the Stuttgart Museum, 1907 catalogue, No 258. 394. PORTRAIT OF A LADY. She wears a blue and white dress, and sits at a table covered with a Persian carpet. Exhibited at Liege, 1893, No. 134. In the collection of Hauzeur de Simony, Verviers. 395. PORTRAIT OF A LADY. Life size; full length; standing, to the left. With her right hand she takes a rose from a sculptured vase standing on the left. Her left hand, which hangs down, holds a striped gauze veil which is wound round her bosom and fastened in the centre with a triple pearl ornament. She wears a white silk dress, a richly embroidered bodice, and short sleeves lined with light blue silk and caught up with jewels. The under-sleeves are trimmed with lace. She wears pearls above her elbows and on her bodice, in her fair hair which falls in thick curls on her shoulders, and at her throat. In the background to the right are a red curtain and a fluted column ; to the left are a house and a garden. There are statues on a terrace and in a courtyard. From the unusually large dimensions it may be inferred that this is one of the two portraits of Marguerite Godin whom Netscher twice painted life size, as an exception to his general rule, according to Weyerman (iv. 136). Signed in full on the foot of the vase ; canvas, 92 inches by 67 inches. [Possibly identical with i66b or i66r. Compare 426.] In the collection of the Duke of Portland, Welbeck Abbey, 1894 catalogue, No. 508. 396. PORTRAIT OF A YOUNG LADY. She wears a grey dress with blue bows ; she has a pearl necklace and wears blue ribbons in her fair hair. Her left hand is on her full breasts which swell from her low-cut bodice ; her right hand is hidden by a blue drapery. Her figure is turned three-quarters right ; she looks over her shoulder to the left. Copper, 3^ inches by 3 inches. In the collection of Count Anton Lamberg-Sprinzenstein, given to the Vienna Academy in 1821. In the Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna, 1900 catalogue, No. 689. 397. PORTRAIT OF A LADY SEATED AT A WINDOW. Through the window is seen a landscape. The lady wears an olive-green dress, and offers a twig to a sheep. Very pleasing. Dated 1674 ; canvas, 19 inches by 15! inches. In the collection of F. L. S. F. Baron van Tuyll van Serooskerken, at the Chateau of Zuylen.