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xvin CASPAR NETSCHER 221 225. Mattheus Lestevenon (1633-1691), Director of the Dutch East India Company at Amsterdam. See Moes, Iconographia Batava, No. 4448. In the collection of M. I. Ridder Pauw van Wieldrecht, Broekhuizen, near Leersum, 1909 catalogue, No. 102. 226. Elisabeth Backer (1644-1718), wife of Mattheus Lestevenon. See Moes, Iconographia Batava, No. 271. In the collection of M. I. Ridder Pauw van Wieldrecht, Broekhuizen, near Leersum, 1909 catalogue, No. 103. 227. MATTHEUS LESTEVENON. Three- quarter length; almost full face. His right hand rests on a hound. His long hair falls on his shoulders. His costume is of orange silk. Signed, and dated 1670 ; canvas, 20 inches by 16 inches. Sale. De la Court and others, Amsterdam, September 21, 1904, No. 108 (470 florins). 228. Diederik van Leyden van Leeuwen (1618-1682), Dutch envoy to England. Three-quarter length ; standing, in a landscape. Brown silk dress. Panel, 17 inches by 13 inches. Sale. H. C. Du Bois and others, Amsterdam, November 27, 1906, No. 141 (100 florins, Van Gelder). 229. Ludwig, Markgraf of Baden (1655-1707). Three-quarter length. In armour, with a wig. Catalogued in 1892 as by an unknown painter, but probably a genuine work by C. Netscher. A small picture. In the art gallery in the Friedrichsbau at the Schloss, Heidelberg, 1892 catalogue, No. 817. 230. LUDWIG, MARKGRAF OF BRANDENBURG (1666- 1687). Sm. Suppl. 29. Three-quarter length ; turned half right and looking at the spectator. He is in full armour, with a large fair wig and a lace collar. He rests his left hand on his helmet, which lies with his ermine cloak on a table ; in his right hand is his baton. At the back to the left is a curtain, while to the right is a view of a landscape in evening light. Canvas, i8| inches by 15^ inches. In one of the Royal Palaces. In the Kaiser Friedrich Museum, Berlin, 1906 catalogue, No. 1024 ; it was in the Berlin Museum, 1842 (Sm.). Luxemburg, Duke of. [See 307.] 231. THE DUCHESSE DE MAINE (?). Full length. A lady of rank with a high lace cap stands in the corner of a terrace ; she is turned to the right, but has her face towards the spectator. Her right hand is on the border of her red velvet gown ; her left hand rests on the balustrade, holding the stem of a flower in a basket of flowers and fruit. In the back- ground are more fruit and flowers. To the right of the lady is a parrot.