xxi EGLON HENDRIK VAN DER NEER 499 Sales. C. Cope, London, June 8, 1872 (231, Wardell). Wardell, London, May 10, 1879 (304 : ios., Agnew). 96. The Promenade. A young gentleman in a black cloak and a comely young lady in white silk walk away together. Graceful and delicate. Signed, and dated 1670. Sale. Potocki, Paris, May 2, 1885 ; see P. Eudel, 1884-1885, p. 362. 97. A Social Scene. Sm. 6. In a handsome room a gentleman, wearing a full flaxen wig and a rich costume, conducts a lady in a satin gown embroidered with flowers. At the farther side of a table covered with a Turkey carpet, sit a lady and a gentleman, attended by a page who takes the lady's empty glass. On the right another servant goes out of the room. In front is a chair on which hangs a furred cloak ; a sword is placed against it. In front also are a fine silver ewer and salver. Canvas, 13 inches by io| inches [but 33^ inches by 27^ inches, according to Sm. and the 1902 sale-catalogue Translator]. Exhibited at Manchester, 1857, No. 951 ; and at the South Kensington Museum, London, 1891-1898, No. 37. Sale. G. Braamcamp, Amsterdam, August 31, 1777 (560 florins, Hope). In the collection of Henry Philip Hope, London, 1833 (Sm., who valued it at 367 : ios.). In the collection of Lord Francis Pelham Clinton Hope, Deepdene ; sold as a whole in 1898 to the London dealers P. and D. Colnaghi and A. Wertheimer. Sale. Duke of Cleveland and others, London, March 8, 1902, No. 79 (withdrawn) [it was the property of Adolf Goerz Translator}. 98. RETURNING FROM THE CHASE. To the left sits a sportsman. On the right is a lady in a white dress. Behind them stands a gentleman. Full length. Signed in full, and dated 1677 ; canvas, 44 inches by 55! inches. In the Lille Museum, 1893 catalogue, No. 558. 99. THE SPORTSMAN IN LOVE. On a little hill in a wood sits a sportsman embracing a girl who sits at his side, and gently repulses him. He lays one hand on her bosom and the other on her shoulder. He is richly dressed ; a girl kneeling behind him to the right puts a garland on his black curls. Behind this group is the hollow trunk of an old willow. In front on a hunting-bag lies a dead hare, with a powder-horn beside it. To the left is a hunting-dog. In the middle distance a stream flows under tall trees. At the back is a little bridge on which stands a sportsman blowing his horn. In the distance is a little castle. The expression on the youth's face is admirably rendered. Panel, 30 inches by 24^ inches. In the Rudolfinum, Prague, 1889 catalogue, No. 520 ; catalogued doubtfully as an Ochterveh. 99<2. A Youth shooting Birds. A young man shoots at birds with a blow-tube. A young lady holds his cap. In the Redern collection, Berlin, 1856 (Parthey, ii. 186).
