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 1 82 AELBERT CUYP SECT. leash. Farther away are other horsemen, and children playing bowls. In the distance is a house with a little turret. Panel, 17 inches by 22| inches. Sale. He*ris, Brussels, June 19, 1846, No. 15. 613*7. A Riding-School. In an open place shut in by trees a number of cavaliers on fine horses are riding for practice. Some country folk and their children look on admiringly. A piquant effect. [Possibly identical with 612. See 613^.] Panel, i6 inches by 20 inches. A Riding-School. [Possibly identical with 612. See 613.] Sale. Burrell, London, June 12, 1897, No. 14. 614. A RIDING-SCHpOL IN THE OPEN AIR. In a garden with high trees, a man in a red coat and brown coat, with riding- whip in his right hand, is breaking in a grey horse. There are four other horsemen. On the left, behind the grey, is a man in a grey coat and hat on a chestnut, seen in profile with head towards the front. A second man on a black horse has his back to the spectator. A third man in grey, with his head to the front, rides a chestnut. A fourth man, in brown with a black hat, comes riding on a bay horse through an archway at the back. Grooms, men-servants, peasants, and boys look on ; in the right foreground is a barking spaniel. The picture is similar in style to the Guttman "Horse Fair" (40) and to the Dulwich picture (605). Signed ; panel, i6 inches by 20 inches. Mentioned by Descamps (ii. 80). In the collection of J. van der Linden van Slingeland, Dordrecht, and in that of Swelling, Brussels, 1859 (according to Kums sale catalogue). In the collection J. A. Tardieu, Paris, 1867. In the collection of Francis Petit, Paris. Sale. Kums, Antwerp, May 17, 1898, No. 98 (17,000 francs, Le Roy). 615. STARTING FOR THE HUNT. In the foreground to the right is a mounted cavalier, with a sword. Near him are two dogs and a shepherd with sheep. In the middle distance are two other riders j to the left is a church, and to the right, in the distance, is a hill. Early morning. Signed, A. Cuyp ; canvas, 46 J inches by 66 inches. Probably identical with the picture described by Waagen (iii. 309) as a sort of riding-school. Exhibited at the Royal Academy Winter Exhibition, London, 1883, No. 238, by Lord Hopetoun. In the collection of the Marquess of Linlithgow, Hopetoun House, Scotland. 616. A CAVALIER RIDING TO THE HUNT. Sm. 174. A cavalier in a red coat is mounted on a dappled-grey horse, facing left in profile and turning the head to the front. In front of him to the left stands a huntsman in brown, seen from the back in a three-quarter view j he leans on his stick and speaks to the man on the grey. Near him are