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434 GERARD DOU SECT. 266. A Nude Woman in a Fine Landscape. M. 358^. She sits on a bank with her left foot in the water. Panel, 6 inches by 5 inches. Sales. Van Zwieten, The Hague, April 12, 1741, No. 68 (9 florins). Van der Land, Amsterdam, May 22, 1766, No. 23. 267. PORTRAIT OF THE PAINTER. Sm. 9 ; M. 104. He looks out of an arched window, with a blue curtain that is drawn to one side. He has in his mouth a pipe, which he holds with his left hand ; he wears a cap, and has long curls falling on his shoulders. He looks up at the spectator from a book lying on the window-sill. In the background are a man and a woman near an easel, with a sunshade over it. Signed in full on a placard beneath the window-sill ; panel, i8| inches by 14 inches, oval. See Qua 1 Holland, x. 235 ; and Moes, Iconographia Batava, 2096, Nos. 12, '3, '5- In the collection of Hendrik van Slingelandt, The Hague, 1752 (Hoet, ii. 407)- Assigned to Diederica Catherina van Slingelandt, 1811, at the division of the estate. Sales. (Possibly) H. Reydon and others, Amsterdam, April 5, 1827, No. 35 (200 florins, Immerzeel). Dan. Hooft Jaczn., Amsterdam, October 23, 1860, No. i (6400 florins, Roos or O. de Kat) the catalogue describes the collection as that of Pieter Cornelisz van Slingelandt, inherited by the Hooft family and never before put up for sale. In the collection of L. Dupper, Dordrecht. Now in the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, Dupper bequest ; 1905 catalogue, No. 791 (old No. 275). 268. PORTRAIT OF THE PAINTER. M. 103. He stands in profile to the right with his face turned to the spectator. He wears a cloak and a slouch hat. He has a glove in his gloved right hand. With the left hand he holds a picture for inspection on a table to the right. It represents an old woman and her husband seated at table, with a young man standing behind her ; the sitters are doubtless Dou's parents with his brother or himself as a youth. Signed in full on the edge of the table ; panel, io| inches by 9 inches, oval. A weak copy with variations is at Cambridge. See Moes, Iconographia Batava, 2096, No. 23. In the Salzdahlum collection. Now in the Brunswick Gallery, 1900 catalogue, No. 303. 269. PORTRAIT OF THE PAINTER. M. 115. The painter sits on the left at a window-sill, on which are a plaster cast, a candlestick, a violin and music-book, and a globe. He is drawing in a large book, with his eyes fixed on the spectator. He wears a cap and a dark jacket. On the table are another antique group, a mandolin, and an open Chinese umbrella. Behind him to the left is a dark green curtain. A chandelier