434 PHILIPS WOUWERMAN SECT. 586^. A Hunt. [Pendant to 613^.] Panel, i6| inches by 25 inches. Sale. Grimond and others, May 25, 1903, No. 119. 586^. A Hunting Party in a Forest. Panel, 15^ inches by i8 inches. Sale. Sir Robert S. Wright and others, London, March 13, 1905, No. 86. 587. A HAWKING PARTY. Sm. 100. On the left three men gallop away after the hawk. A lady on a grey horse halts on the extreme left ; she faces the spectator and speaks to a boy who stoops toward some hunting implements. Behind her are trees. In the centre foreground a man kneeling looks after the huntsmen, who are followed by dogs. A woman with a child in her arms sits on the ground near. In the middle distance are other horsemen and grooms. A river valley ; on the farther bank lies a town at the foot of a hill. A fine cloudy sky. A late work. Signed on the right at foot with the full monogram ; copper, 10 inches by 12 inches. Mentioned by Ch. Blanc, Le Tre'sor de la Curiosite, i. 194-195, 381. Engraved by Dunker, No. 73, in the Choiseul Gallery. Sales. Due de Choiseul, Paris, 1772 (3000 francs). Prince de Conti, Paris, April 8, 1777 (4000 francs, Langlier) according to Ch. Blanc ; or March 15, 1779 (2700 francs) according to the Amsterdam catalogue, and Sm. Destouches, Paris, March 21, 1794. Claude Tolozan, Paris, February 23, 1801 (2720 francs). G. van der Pot, Rotterdam, June 6, 1808, No. 143 (3030 florins, De Wit for Amsterdam). In the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, 1908 catalogue, No. 2714. 588. HERON HAWKING. On the right, on a road at the edge of a wood, huntsmen exercise their horses. A lady rides a grey horse. On the grass in front men tend the hawks and dogs. To the left is a green meadow. An early work. Signed on the left at foot with a false monogram, under which probably there is still the real one ; panel, 1 7 inches by 25 inches. Acquired for Dresden in 1708 by Lemmers from Antwerp ; but first hung in the gallery since Guarienti's inventory (before 1753), No. 1737. In the Royal Picture Gallery, Dresden, 1905 catalogue, No. 1412. 589. A HAWKING PARTY NEAR THE EXECU- TIONER'S HOUSE. Sm. 507 and Suppl. 255. A rushing stream flows down to the centre foreground ; in the middle distance is a bridge, on which stands a woman with children. To the left, near trees, is the exe- cutioner's house, as the catalogue calls it, because of the wheel in the garden. It is very doubtful whether the house is that of an executioner at all ; a wheel fixed horizontally was commonly used for drying or placing things on, as may be seen in numerous pictures by other masters as, for instance, the A. Cuyp 378, or the E. van der Poel in the Tritsch collection, Vienna. In the right foreground is a hunting party. A mounted cavalier and a lady
