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JAN 16 1912

PORTRAIT OF A YOUNG MAN RISING FROM HIS CHAIR. (Comte Edmond de Pourtales Collection, Paris)

A man of about five and twenty, in the act of rising from an arm-chair covered with green material. His face and the upper part of his body are tuned towards the spectator. His right hand, in which he holds his gloves, rests on the back of the chair, his left is extended, as if to emphasise something he is saying. He is richly and fashionably dressed in a costume of black brocaded silk, with thick cords at the waist: his black cloak is thrown across his right arm and shoulder. He wears a flat collar and cuffs of costly lace, and a broad-brimmed black felt hat. He has dark, curly hair, and a slight pointed beard of a much lighter colour. The subdued sunlight falls on him from in front. Gray background, rather light in tone. Three-quarters length life-size. Signed to the right, just below the hand: Rembrandt f. 1633 Canvas H. 1m,2 5; w. 1m,00. Possibly the pendent to No. 101. Smith no. 332; Vosmaer, pp. 121, 500; Bode, no 299; Dutuit, p. 52, no 224; Wurzbach, no 311; Michel, p. 143 Lord Ashburnham's Collection, sold in London 1850; purchased by the art- dealer Farrer, by whom it was sold to Comte de Pourtales of Paris. Pourtales -Gorgier Collection, sold in Paris in 1865. Comte Edmond de Pourtales' Collection, Paris.