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 446 PHILIPS WOUWERMAN SECT. road. Two children are bathing near a little waterfall, and fishermen are watching their nets. Farther back two mounted men and a lady gallop from right through the shallow stream. On the farther bank is a fine country house with an arbour at the river-side and a fountain. In the distance are high hills. "An excellent production" (Sm.). [Pendant to 838.] Signed in the centre at foot with the full monogram ; canvas, 28^ inches by 51^ inches. Engraved by Moyreau, No. 20, as " La Grande Chasse au Cerf." Mentioned by Ch. Blanc, Le Tresor de la Curiosite, i. 3. Sale. Comtesse de Verrue, Paris, March 27, 1737, probably No. 24 (5036 francs, with pendant). According to Htlbner, it was acquired for Dresden in 1749 by Le Leu from the Verrue collection. But it actually came there with the pendant in 1742, through De Brais, from the Carignan collection, Paris. Two sale catalogues of this collection existed one for the sale fixed for July 30, 1742, but not actually held till June 1 8, 1743; the other, slightly altered, for this later sale. So that the pictures probably reached Dresden in the intervening year, 1742. In Guarienti's Dresden inventory, before 1753, No. 1569. In the Royal Picture Gallery, Dresden, 1905 catalogue, No. 1449 (Sm. valued it in 1829 at 1050). 621. HUNTING THE STAG. Five men and women on horse- back gallop with dogs from right to left across a shallow stream in pursuit of a stag and a hind. The leading huntsman has a spear. A man follows on foot. In the right foreground a woman in a blue-and-yellow dress on a grey horse is about to descend the steep river-bank ; beside her to the right is a man on a bay horse. In the right middle distance the ground slopes upward from the river. On the top of the hill to the right are two horsemen and figures on foot. Beyond them are lofty hills. In the centre of the distance is a house on a low hill. To the left the river flows between low wooded banks ; a boat is in the left distance. An unimportant example of the late period. Panel, 23^ inches by 19 inches. Mentioned by Hofstede de Groot, Oud Hollana, xi. 147. In the collection of Dr. William Hunter, Glasgow, bequeathed to Glasgow University, 1783. In the Hunterian Museum, Glasgow University, No. 134. 622. A STAG HUNT. At the edge of a wood, two stags are surrounded by huntsmen and dogs. A horseman in red blows a horn to summon the rest of the hunt. Signed with the full monogram ; canvas, 20^ inches by 27 inches. Acquired in 1760. In the Copenhagen Museum, 1904 catalogue, No. 389. 623. THE STAG HUNT. Sm. 477 and Suppl. 226. A hilly landscape near a lake with wooded banks. A large party of ladies and gentlemen are hunting two stags. One has been brought to bay by the hounds. The other, near two trees in the centre, is surrounded by hunts-