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26 FRANS HALS SECT. Signed with a false monogram at top to the left ; canvas, 8| inches by 7 inches. In the Schwerin Museum, 1882 catalogue, No. 449. 92. A Lute-Player. A young man with curly hair in a brown costume with a broad lace collar and white cuffs. Grey background. Signed at foot to the right, F. Hals, 1629 ; panel, 7 inches by 5 inches. Sale. A. Baehner, Cologne, September 30, 1889, No. 50. 93. Cavalier with a Violin. Panel, 1 1 inches by 8 inches. Sale. F. Yeats Edwards and others, London, July 13, 1903, No. 85 (430 : I os.). 94. A Flute-Player. In a brown costume. 25^ inches by 24 inches. Sale. Vera Koudacheft" and others, London, December I, 1906, No. 80 Ci575> Sir J. D. Linton). In the possession of the London dealers Dowdeswell. 95. THE MERRY TOPER. B. 97 ; M. 267. Half-length, life size. A laughing man with a brown face is turned half right. His head is slightly inclined to the left ; he looks at the spectator. He has a slight beard and moustache. His rough hair sticks out from beneath a flat red cap with yellow trimming. His costume is also red and yellow. In his left hand he holds a mug with open lid. In the same style as 96 and 98. This picture is represented in two pictures by Jan Steen, Nos. 137 and 446 (see Vol. I.). [Pendant to 123. Compare 99^.] Signed on the right above the mug " f. hals f." ; canvas, 29^ inches by 24 inches. Engraved by J. Suyderhoef as " Monsieur Peeckelhaering." Under the name "Peeckelhaering" pictures are mentioned in the inven- tories of Henric Bugge, Leyden, 1666 ; Hendrick Huyck, Nymwegen, January 10, 1669 ; and Jan Zeeuw and Marie Bergervis, who died 1690, Amsterdam according to notes by A. Bredius. A copy on canvas, 29^ inches by 26 inches, signed on the right with the monogram was in the sale : Vicomte de Buisseret, Brussels, April 29, 1891, No. 41. In the chief Kassel inventory of 1749, No. 363. In the Kassel Gallery, 1903 catalogue, No. 216. 96. A MULATTO. M. 268. Half-length. A laughing mulatto, turned three-quarters left, looks at the spectator ; his head is slightly inclined to the right. His left hand seems to hold a sword of which only the hilt is visible. His right hand with outstretched index-finger points at something. His costume and flat cap are of red trimmed with yellow. Grey background. [Compare 95.] Signed on the right with the monogram ; canvas, 30 inches by 25 inches. A repetition of this picture was in the hands of a German dealer some years ago. A second study of the same model is in the Wiesbaden Museum. A copy