vin PHILIPS WOUWERMAN 469 685. Huntsmen halting at an Inn. Sm. 131. Among them are a lady on horseback, a mounted huntsman with a hawk, two beggars and hounds. In all there are eight figures and five horses. [Pendant to 882.] Panel, 14 inches by 16 inches. Mentioned by Ch. Blanc, Le Trtsor de la Curiosite, ii. 295. Sales. Randon de Boisset, Paris, February 3, 1777, No. 91 (5000 francs, with pendant). Clos, Paris, November 18, 1812 (4411 francs). 6850. Huntsmen halting. With horses and hounds in a wooded landscape. Panel, 25 inches by 20 inches. Sale. Ph. van der Schley and D. du Pre, Amsterdam, December 22, 1817, No. 140 (466 florins, Coders). 685^. Halt of a Hunting Party. Sm. 292. Sale. John Knight, London, 1819 (252, Sir T. Hesketh). 685*:. A Mounted Huntsman at an Inn. His horse is feeding. A woman pours out beer for him. In the middle distance are another horse and a boy. Panel, 13 inches by 10 inches. Sale. J. A. van Dam, Dordrecht, June I, 1829, No. 150 (100 florins, bought in). 685</. Halt of a Hunting Party. The party fills the foreground. On the left a gentleman escorts a lady. On the left two horses feed at a trough. Beyond a central group of horses and figures are a coach and pair. Panel, about 15 inches by 21 inches. In the collection of C. A. Bredel, London, 1829 (Sm.). 686. Huntsmen halting at a Country House. Sm. 468. Before the portico and facade of a country house, with a Neptune fountain at the end of a garden wall, is a hunting party. In front is a group of four horses. A fine white horse with a cropped tail is held by a cavalier who takes a glass of wine from a page. On the steps of the portico a gentleman hands a lady down ; a negress holds a parasol over her. On the other side are a man with a gun on a bay horse and a falconer with a hoop of hawks. There are seven other figures with four couples of dogs. "This picture is painted in the artist's second and enamelled manner, and is exquisitely finished" (Sm.). Panel, 17 inches by 23 inches. In the collection of Comte Pourtales, Paris, bought as a whole in 1826 by Emmerson and Sm. Sale. Comte Pourtales, London, 1826 (.267 : ijs., Norton). In the Dixon collection, London, 1829 (Sm.). 687. Three Sportsmen halting at an Inn. Sm. 388 and Suppl. 176. The man nearest the door mounts his horse, which the landlord holds with one hand, while taking money in the other from a man
