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PORTRAIT OF JORIS DE CAULLERY, Officer. 

Illustrated Bodé,page 17, Dutuit,page 364, Wurzbach, page 346. 
Bodé and Hofstede de Groot page 84. 
Almost to the knees;  life size.     He stands turned to the right and looking straight out of the picture, he is bare-headed with a fresh complexion.    Thick and bushy dark hair and a small pointed beard of the same colour.     He wears a dull buff coat with a steel gorget over which is a coloured neck cloth.     His right hand which hangs down holds a long musket;  his left hand,whih[[overwritten]]c[[/overwritten]] is not seen,rests on his hip beside his sword which is thrust into a broad bandolier embroidered with silver.     The greyish background has falling light;  full light falls from the la[[overwritten]]e[[/overwritten]]ft at top. 

The identification of the sitter as Joris De Caullery rests on the fact that this man who lived from about 1600 to 1661 and who was first an inn-keeper of the Hague and later Captain of a ship, gave his daughter on June 16,1654 a portrait of himself holding a musket painted by Rembrandt.     [[underlined]]This picture is the only known portrait with such an accessorie[[crossed-out]]s[[/crossed-out]].     Signed to the right and on a level with the sword hilt "R.H.L. van Rijn,1632"; [[/underlined]] canvas 40-1/.2" by 33".

[[underlined]] Mentioned by Vosmer, first ed. page 427;  Dutuit page 53, Michel pag 118, Hofstede de Groot, urkenden 156, and Moes 1512, 2.   Exhibited at Amsterdam 1867 No.163, The Hague 1881, No.247, Brussels 1882 No.215, and Paris 1911 No.127. [[/underlined]]

In the collection of Josyna de Caullery, The Hague, to whom the [[underlined]] father gave it on June 16, 1654. [[/underlined]]

[[underlined]] In the collection of Quarles V. Ufford, The Hague 1890. [[/underlined]]
[[underlined]] In the possession of [[crossed-out]] the Amsterdam dealer [[/crossed-out]] A. Breyer.   Sale C.T. Yerkes, New York, April 5,1910 No.84. [[/underlined]] Until recently in the private collection of Jacques Seligmann, Paris.