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242 CASPAR NETSCHER SECT. See Moes, Iconographia Batava, No. 657, 3. Sale. Jer. de Bosch, Amsterdam, April 6, 1812, No. 15. 305*. Johan de Witt. Canvas, 25! inches by 2oi inches. Sale. Jer. dc Bosch, Amsterdam, April 6, 1812, No. 14. 35/ Johann de Witt. Life size. [Pendant to 305^.] Canvas, 52 inches by 40 J inches. Sale. Amsterdam, April 30, 1821, No. 321 (150 florins, with pendant, Brondgeest). 305^. Wendela Bicker, wife of Johan de Witt. [Pendant to 305/3 Canvas, 52 inches by 40^ inches. Sale. Amsterdam, April 30, 1821, No. 321 (150 florins, with pendant, Brondgeest). 305^. Johan de Witt. In black, before a curtain. Canvas, 19^ inches by 15 inches. Sale. H. C. Du Bois and others, Amsterdam, November 27, 1906, No. 140 (170 florins). 306. Johan de Witt. Sm. 76. His fine oval face with Roman nose is seen almost in full. His thick bushy hair falls on his shoulders. He wears a figured robe, with a plain flat white collar and tassels. One hand is in front ; the other is on a stone pedestal at his side. Engraved by Houbraken and by H. Bary. 307. Johan de Witt with the Duke of Luxemburg (1628- 1695). It is highly improbable that the Dutch statesman and the French general would have been painted together. [See 39.] See Moes, Iconographia Batava, No. 9185, 37. 308. HELENA CATHARINA DE WITTE (1661-1695), wife of Iman Mogge. Three-quarter length ; seated to the left, with the head inclined to the right. Her right hand is on the low-cut bosom of her gown ; her left hand is outstretched, pointing to the front. She wears a figured gown and a large drapery falling over her left arm. Her broad white sleeves leave the forearm bare. Her curls fall on her shoulders. She has pearls in her ears and at her throat. In the background to the left is a park in evening light ; to the right is a wall. Signed in full, and dated 1678 ; canvas, 19 J inches by 16 inches. See Moes, Iconographia Batava, No. 9202. Bequeathed by J. S. H. van de Poll to the Rijksmuseum in 1880. In the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, 1911 catalogue, No. 1728. 309. JANE WROTH, wife from 1681 of Willem Hendrik, Count of Nassau-Zuylestein (1649-1709), later Earl of Rochford. Sm. Suppl. 36. At the age of about twenty-eight. She sits in a landscape, leaning her head on her right hand, with her elbow on a pedestal. A little dog lies on her lap. She wears a brown silk gown, with full white muslin sleeves. Her dark brown hair falls in curls on her shoulders.