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 vii AELBERT CUYP 13 Sale. J. van der Linden van Slingeland, Dordrecht, August 22, 1785, No. 83. 1 7. Mercury and Juno. In the foreground of a hilly landscape a herd of cattle are reposing. On the right Juno, beside her chariot drawn by peacocks, listens to Mercury's message. Panel, 28 inches by 37 inches. Sale. Wasimski and others, Frankfort-on-Main, May 20, 1901, No. 35. 18. ORPHEUS CHARMING THE BEASTS. Orpheus, dressed in a green costume and red cloak, sits on a hill to the right. To the left is a level plain with the Huis te Merwede in the distance. To the right is a clump of trees. It is an early work. Cuyp's authorship can be recognised in the treatment of the trees, the distance, the ground, the sky, and some animals, although the picture is badly hung and catalogued as "unknown." Panel, 15^ inches by 21 inches. In the Amalienstift, Dessau, 1877 catalogue, No. 267. 19. ORPHEUS CHARMING THE BEASTS. Sm. 196. Orpheus, almost life-size, dressed in antique garb and wearing a laurel wreath, sits under a tree, playing a fiddle. He is surrounded by many beasts. To the right are a cow and a horse. To the left, near a stream with steep banks, are an elephant, camel, stag, two leopards, unicorn, ostrich, and others. A work of the master's maturity. Signed in the full in the centre ; canvas, 46 inches by 69 inches. Mentioned by Waagen (iii. 480). Exhibited at Glasgow, 1884. Sales. J. van Nispen, The Hague, September 12, 1768 (Terw. 670), No. 5 (171 florins). Hendrich Verschuuring, The Hague, September 17, 1770, No. 38. In the collection of the Marquess of Bute, London, Richter's 1884 catalogue, No. 37 ; it was there in 1834 (Sm.). 20. The Blind leading the Blind. Round panel, 27 inches in circumference. Sale. F. Yeats Edwards and others, London, July 13, 1903, No. 4. 21. The Four Seasons. Four female figures. Panel, 36 inches by 27 inches. Sale. London, May 19, 1904, No. 93. 21 a. True Love. Sale. Brussels, August I, 1842, No. 21. 22. SIEGE OF A FORTRESS. In the foreground to the right four cavaliers with a boy on a pony ride past a clump of trees on the bank of a stream which is seen to the left in the middle distance. On the left are four men carrying a burden on poles, with many small figures behind them. On the farther bank of the stream are a church and a fortress, from the walls of which cannon are being fired. The genuineness of the picture is wrongly questioned in the catalogue.