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 234 AELBERT CUYP SECT. Signed in white in the left-hand bottom corner, A : C. ; panel, 22 inches by 28 inches. Sales. J. van der Linden van Slingeland, Dordrecht, August 22, 1785, No. 602 (27 florins, Coders). G. J. van den Berg, Rotterdam, April 22, 1818, No. 185. In the collection of Jan van der Hoop, who bequeathed it to the Boymans Museum, 1859. In the Boymans Museum, Rotterdam, 1907 catalogue, No. 57 (old No. 52). 808. A Cock and a Hen in a Stable. Sm. 266. They are sitting on straw upon the ground. The hen, in profile to the left, is in front ; the cock is behind her, facing right. The 1886 catalogue described it as a copy after M. d' Hondecoeter, as Bayersdorfer thought the signature false. The 1905 catalogue is probably right in assigning it to Guy p. Signed in the left - hand bottom corner, " A : ciiyp " ; canvas, 23! inches by 27^ inches. Sm. and Parthey (i. 271, 1863) mention a picture in the Munich Pina- kothek, the details and size (21^ inches by 25^ inches) of which agree fairly well with those in this picture. As no such picture is now at Munich, it is probable that the picture was transferred from Munich to Schleissheim after 1863 ; or else there has been some mistake. Acquired under the Elector Karl Theodor. In the Picture Gallery at the Royal Palace, Schleissheim, 1905 catalogue, No. 906 (old No. 591). 809. A COCK AND FOUR HENS. A black cock with head thrown back stands in profile to the left in the centre. In front of him to the left are three light-coloured hens ; a fourth, which is dark with a white head, lies in the foreground in profile to the right. Signed in the left-hand bottom corner, A. Cuyp ; canvas, 22 inches by 24 inches (in the frame). Acquired about 1850 or 1860 from Brasseur, Cologne. In the collection of Dr. Leopold Sticker, Cologne. In the collection of Emil Brandts, Wiesbaden. 809*. A Cock reposing, and a Hen. 21 inches by 25 J inches. Sales. C. van Hardenberg, Utrecht, September 20, 1802 (24 florins, bought in). Note. Pictures of a hen on a nest by Govert Camphuysen such, for example, as that of the Sellar sale, Paris, June 6, 1889, No. 14 and by Gijsbert d' Hondecoeter, such as that in the Martius collection at Kiel, are not seldom confused with similar pictures by Aelbert Cuyp. It is therefore possible that some of the following pictures are really by Camphuysen or G. d' Hondecoeter. 809^. A Sitting Hen in a Basket. [See note to 809*.] Panel, 1 6 inches by 20 inches. Sale. Boymans, Utrecht, August 31, 1811, No. C. 25. 809^ A Cock lying down, amidst several Hens. By Cuyp or in his manner.