Page:Hofstede de Groot catalogue raisonné, Volume 2, 1909.djvu/175

 vii AELBERT CUYP 159 yellow stockings, and shoes. In the extreme left foreground is a tree- trunk with three doves on and around it. Beyond is a bright landscape with, in the centre, a clump of small trees, one of which is almost leafless. In the distance are two hills. Signed in the left-hand bottom corner, A. C ; panel, 14 inches by 21 inches. In the collection of the Earl of Dysart, Ham House, Richmond. 521 a. Halting before the Inn. 51^ inches by 72 inches. Sale. Coenraad Baron Droste, The Hague, July 21, 1734 (Hoet, i. 426), No. 47 (20 florins). 521^. Horsemen halting. A fine composition. Canvas, 34 inches by 47 inches. Sale. Molinari, Brussels, July 15, 1763 (Terw. 348), No. 58 (32 francs). 52i<r. A Cavalier on a Grey Horse in front of an Inn. The host hands him a drink. Panel. Sale. Amsterdam, April 17, 1809, No. 147 (14 florins, Gruyter). 521^:. Two Horsemen in front of a Building. One has dismounted and stands behind his grey horse. The other is mounted on a brown horse. Panel, I2| inches by 16^ inches. Sale. P. van der Santheuvel and J. van Stry, Dordrecht, April 24, 1816, No. 10. Horsemen halting. Sm. 139. A cavalier in red rides a grey horse. A groom holds a brown horse. A man sits on a third horse, of a dark colour. Behind these is a countryman watering two other horses. In the background is a ruined castle. Canvas, 20 inches by 25^ inches. Sale. C. L. Reynders, Brussels, August 6, 1821 (680 florins). 522. Two Horsemen at an Inn. Sm. 144. One, dismounted, offers his companion a glass of liquor which the hostess has poured out. Near them are two hunting dogs ; in the distance are trees and a village. Panel, 12 inches by 17 inches. Sale. Robert de St. Victor, Paris, November 26, 1822 (900 francs). 523. Horsemen halting at a Sutler's Booth. [Pendant to 25.] Probably, panel, 12 inches by i6 inches the size of the pendant. Sales. Marquess of Bute, London, 1822 (.136 : IDS.). W. Beckford, Fonthill Abbey, 1823 (123 : 1 8s., Martin). 524. Halting at the Inn. On the right, in front of an inn, the sign of which is hung out across the picture, two cavaliers have dismounted. One has taken the saddle off his grey horse and put it down, while he ties the bridle to the corner of the inn. The other man stands behind his horse and is unsaddling it. In the left foreground are