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ix FRANS HALS 75 a cloak with a small turned-down collar. He holds his gloves. Blackish background. Painted towards 1660, but not yet so broad as the Haarlem pictures. Signed on the right at foot with the monogram ; canvas, 40^ inches by 32^ inches. In the Suermondt collection, Aachen, 1874. In the Kaiser Friedrich Museum, Berlin, 1906 catalogue, No. 801 E. 255. PORTRAIT OF A DEFORMED MAN. B. 89; M. 121. Half-length. He is turned three-quarters left, and looks at the spectator. His gloved left hand rests on his hip ; his gloved right hand is held in front of him. He has a moustache and a pointed beard. He wears a broad-brimmed black felt hat, a black silk costume with a cloak that is meant to conceal the hump on the left shoulder, a big white lace collar, and lace ruffles. Light-grey background. Dated on the back, 1625 > panel, 10 inches by 8 inches. In the Suermondt collection, Aachen, 1874. In the Kaiser Friedrich Museum, Berlin, 1906 catalogue, No. 801 F. 256. PORTRAIT OF A MAN STANDING. M. 101. Three-quarter-length. He is turned three-quarters right, but looks to the left, past the spectator. The back of his right hand is pressed on his hip ; the left hand holds his gloves. He has a slight moustache and imperial. He wears a broad-brimmed hat, and a black costume and cloak with a flat white collar. [Pendant to 368.] Canvas, 47^ inches by 37^ inches. Exhibited at Dtisseldorf, 1904, No. 316. Sale. (Possibly) Huybert Ketelaar, Amsterdam, June 19, 1776, No. 71 measuring 41^ inches by 37 inches. In the Hobson collection, Rugby. Successively in the possession of the London dealers Lesser, Orrock, and P. and D. Colnaghi. In the collection of the late A. von Carstanjen, Berlin. 257. PORTRAIT OF A MAN. M. 67. Half-length. He is turned three-quarters right, with his head almost in full face. He looks at the spectator. He has long hair and a slight moustache. He is in black with a close-fitting white collar. It is painted with as much breadth and freedom as Lord Spencer's portrait (247), and is perhaps even more accom- plished. Of the last period. Panel, 12 J inches by 10 inches. Exhibited at Berlin, 1890, No. 81 ; and at the Portrait Exhibition, The Hague, 1903, No. 40. Sale. Richard Foster, Clewer Manor, June 3, 1876 (Lesser). In the collection of Wilhelm Gumprecht, Berlin. 258. PORTRAIT OF A GENTLEMAN. M. 166. Half- length, facing right. He sits in a chair, leaning his right arm on it, and holds in his right hand a sprig of holly. He is in black and wears a hat. He has long hair. [Compare 215.]