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Carl H. Getz
100 East 42nd Street
New York.
Murray Hill 6251.

Editor:  Thinking that this may be of possible public interest I am sending this along to you with my compliments.   Carl H. Getz

The famous portrait of Joris de Coulery by Rembrandt which was at one time included in the internationally know C.T. Yerkes collection --New York--has been acquired by a Chicago collector from Jacques Seligmann & Co., New York, and will soon be returned to this country.
  
Joris de Coulery was originally a vintner and later a captain of the Dutch navy. The portrait was given by him to his daughter in June, 1664, and shows him in an officer's uniform holding a musket.  The picture has the peculiarity of being the only Rembrandt painting in existence picturing a rifle. 

The date of the picture is 1632. It was exhibited first at the Hague in 1881, in Brussels in 1822 and in Paris in 1911.  It was in the collection of Josyna de Caullery, The Hague, to whom the father gave it in 1654.  It was a part of the Yerkes collection until 1910 when it was acquired by Jacques Seligmann of Paris.