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xvin CASPAR NETSCHER 297 In the Uffizi Gallery, Florence, 1910 catalogue, No. 950 ; it was there in 1833 (Sm., who valued it at ^315). 463. A FAMILY GROUP IN A LANDSCAPE. On the left stand the parents, dressed in black. In the centre is a large tree, beside which to the right sits a nurse, in a brown jacket and black skirt. She holds on her lap a little child in white who hands a tulip to another child dressed in greyish purple. In the right foreground a white dog drinks at a puddle. On the extreme right is an entrenchment, in front of which is a fountain with a group of Cupids standing upon and beside a cask. Interesting as testimony to the strong influence exercised by Ter Borch on Netscher. Signed in full, and dated 1660 ; canvas, 31 inches by 24^ inches. In the collection of the Due de Polignac. In the possession of the Paris dealer F. Kleinberger, 1911. 464. A FAMILY GROUP. Sm. 6. Full-length figures in an interior. On a chair to the right sits the father, facing left, with his left hand leaning on his left knee. Behind to the left is a table with an open book on it. Beside the table is the little daughter in brown. She holds up her apron full of flowers with her left hand. Her mother, standing on the extreme left, holds her right hand. The mother, seen in a three- quarter view to the right, wears a white skirt and yellow jacket, and has a pink in her right hand. At the back is a wall with a recess for the bed. An early work in the manner of Ter Borch. Signed in full, and dated 1663 ; canvas, 21 inches by i8 inches. Exhibited in the Portrait Exhibition, The Hague, 1903, No. 103. Sales. Paris, 1783 (1402 francs). Prince de Conti, Paris, 1779 (1030 francs). P. de Smeth van Alphen, Amsterdam, August I, 1810, No. 68 (290 florins, Texier). Lady Page Turner and others, London, February 21, 1903, No. 23. In the collection of the late Adolphe Schloss, Paris. 465. THE MAGISTRATE'S FAMILY. A man and woman with six children in a park with large trees in front of an imposing palace in the Italian style. The mother wears a white silk gown and a pearl necklace and bracelets. She holds on her lap her youngest child, wrapped in a blue cloth. Behind, at her right, stands her husband, resting his left arm on the back of her chair. He wears a long peruke and the costume of a magistrate. Above him between two columns is the figure of Justice. To the left of the lady are two daughters, one in red, and the other in blue, silk ; they are weaving garlands of roses. A little farther away three other young girls are engaged in adorning a statue with a garland. In the left corner is a flowering poppy in a vase of yellow terra-cotta. Signed in full on a stone in front, and dated 1667 ; canvas, 32 J inches by 35J inches. Sale. H. de Kat, Paris, May 2, 1866, No. 56 (7110 francs, the Boymans Museum, which paid 5575 florins). In the Boymans Museum, Rotterdam, 1907 catalogue, No. 215.