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viii TRANSLATOR'S NOTE other portrait, which Dr. Hofstede de Groot had not described. The details of the two pictures are therefore set out here. The picture described by Dr. Hofstede de Groot (Frans Hals 304): 304. PORTRAIT OF A MAN. B. 38 ; M. 95. Half-length ; in a painted oval. He faces three-quarters right and looks at the spectator. His right hand is on his breast ; in the left hand are his gloves. He has grey hair, a moustache and side-whiskers. He wears a broad-brimmed black hat, a black silk coat, a cloak of the same material hanging round both shoulders, and a ruff. [Pendant to 379.] Signed on the right with the monogram, and inscribed "^ETAT SV./E 50 (and under this) AN 1635 " ; canvas, 34^ inches by 26^ inches. Exhibited at Vienna, 1873, No. 158. Sales. Amsterdam, June 21, 1797, No. 90 (20 florins, with pendant, Aiman). Lippmann von Lissingen of Vienna, Paris, March 16, 1876, No. 21. In the possession of the Paris dealer C. Sedelmeyer, " Catalogue of 300 Paintings," No. 49. In the collection of the late Maurice Kann, Paris. The picture not described by Dr. Hofstede de Groot (which may for convenience be numbered Frans Hals 304*2) : 3040. Portrait of a Man. Half-length. He faces three-quarters right, and looks at the spectator. His raised left hand is half-gloved. He has curly grey hair and a slight moustache. He wears a broad-brimmed black hat, a black figured-velvet cloak, and a broad white collar. In the right-hand top corner is a coat-of-arms ; or, three ox-heads sable. The same coat-of-arms occurs in the portraits of Balthasar, Isabella, and Joseph Coymans (168, 181, 169). [Regarded as a pendant to 417.] Signed on the right with the monogram, and inscribed "./ETA SV./E 52 (and under this) 1644" ; canvas, 27^ inches by 33 inches. Mentioned in the Burlington Magazine, November 1909, vol. xvi. p. 109, where the sitter is identified as Joseph Coymans (see 169). Exhibited at the National Loan Exhibition, London, 1909, No. 36, by Messrs. Duveen. Bought by James Carnegie in October 1850, from the London dealer Forest, according to an inscription on the back. In the collection of the late Maurice Kann, Paris ; bought by the London dealers Duveen with 303, 417, and other pictures. In the possession of the London dealers Duveen. Mr. D. S. MacColl kindly draws attention to the fact that Hals 291, "The Laughing Cavalier," is not signed, and is on canvas, not on panel.