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 74 GERARD TER BORCH SECT. Panel, 9 inches by 7 inches. Sale. Comte dc Montferrc of Laval, Brussels, December 5, 1906, No. 78. 202. The Interior of the Berg Kerk at Deventer, looking East On the right is the pulpit. On the left, high up, is the under part of the organ. On the left, in front of a bench filling the whole breadth of the nave, stand an old man with long grey curls and a younger woman both obviously portraits. In front of them, a young man seen from the back converses with them. On the extreme right, a man and a woman in profile to the right are looking at something. Canvas, 28i inches by 30 inches. The original has disappeared. Described from an old copy, the history of which is as follows : Exhibited at Brussels, 1873, No. 175. In the Chapuis collection, Brussels. In the collection of B. Suermondt, Aachen; acquired in 1874 by the Berlin Museums. In the Suermondt Museum, Aachen, No. 208; lent by the Berlin Museums in 1884 and withdrawn in 1910. In the Police Department, Berlin; lent by the Berlin Museums, 1911. 203. Interior with Five Figures. i inches by I2| inches. Sale. F. Pauwels, Brussels, August 22, 1803, No. 97 (50 francs). 204. PORTRAIT OF THE PAINTER. Sm. 37. Full length. The master stands facing three-quarters right, and looks at the spectator. He is in black and wears a large fair peruke. A long dark cloak covers his arms and falls to the knee, showing only a small piece of his breeches. He has grey stockings and black shoes with large dark bows. His right foot is slightly advanced. Grey background. The artistic quality of the picture is excellent, but the effect is much diminished by its bad condition. [Pendant to 205.] Canvas on panel, 24 inches by 17 inches. Cf. Moes, Iconographia Batava, No. 874, 2 and 3. The head only was engraved by J. Houbraken for Arnold Houbraken's Groote Schouburgh; lithographed by F. B. Waandeers and J. J. Mesker. Sales. H. Aarentz of Deventer, Amsterdam, April 1 1, 1770, No. 10 (153 florins, with pendant, J. van der Marck) canvas, 29^ inches by 20 inches. J. van der Marck, Amsterdam, August 25, 1773, No. 461 (15 florins, Fouquet) canvas on panel. P. F. Tiberghien, Brussels, May 22, 1828, No. 308. In the Royal Gallery, The Hague, 1910 catalogue, No. 177; it was there in 1833 (Sm.). 205. Geertruyd Matthysen (i6i2-before 1674), wife of Gerard ter Borch. Full length, standing, with a fan in her hand. As good as 204, its pendant. Canvas, 24 inches by 17 inches.