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360 GERARD DOU SECT. A Scholar. M. 53. A half-length. The hands rest on a globe standing on a table. Panel, 7 inches by 5| inches. Sale. Roelofs:Thijssen, Amsterdam, October 26, 1891. 53. A SCHOLAR IN HIS STUDY. M. 68. Painted on the doors of a shrine containing an ivory Christ on an ebony cross. The inner sides of the doors are painted with a bluish-green curtain hung in folds on a brass rod. At the back is a scholar seated to the left at a table near a window in his study. The shrine is of ebony, 23 inches high, 19 inches wide, and 6 inches deep. Sale. Amsterdam, March 13, 1888. In the possession of a dealer at The Hague, 1900 (see Martin, chapter ii.). 54. AN OLD MAN WRITING. Sm. 13 and 103 ; M. 56.- At an arched window in a room an old man (Rembrandt's father) sits in an arm-chair. He wears a purple cap and a fur-trimmed cloak, and writes in a large book which he supports on his left arm. In front of him is an easel, with a panel on it. In the background to the left, up two steps, is another part of the room. Here is a table with a light blue cloth, on which are a globe, a candlestick, and a book. A blue curtain suspended from the ceiling is drawn back behind a pillar, on which hangs a violin. In the right foreground are a trumpet, shield, and helmet. A six-branched chandelier hangs from the ceiling. Several of the accessories are repeated in 55. Painted before 1640, according to the catalogue. Signed in the book at the back of the table ; panel, 12^ inches by 10 inches. Described by Waagen (ii. 183). Exhibited at the British Institution, 1848 ; at the Burlington Fine Arts Club, 1900, No. 27. In the collection of King William III. of England (Sm.). Sale. Bicker van Zwieten, The Hague, April 12, 1741, No. 65 (400 florins, Van Heteren). In the collection of A. van Heteren, The Hague, 1752 (Hoet, ii. 454) ; and acquired with this collection by the Rijksmuseum, 1809. Sale. Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, August 4, 1828 (510 florins, Brond- geest). In the possession of the dealer Emmerson, London, 1829. Sale. Charles Brind, London, May 10, 1849 (96:125., Lord North- brook). In the collection of the Earl of Northbrook, London, 1889 catalogue, No. 53. 55. AN OLD MAN WRITING. Sm. 87 ; M. 57. The figure is seen to the knees, and is turned three-quarters to the left. The man sits at a table with a green cloth, on which are a large book propped against a globe, a skull, writing materials, and the like. In the back- ground is part of Dou's studio, with a pillar round which is fixed a spiral staircase, a sunshade, books, and a cage. The model is Dou's father.