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 vii AELBERT CUYP 3 1 74-&. Portrait of Cuyp. See Moes, Iconographia Batava, 1871, No. 6. Sales. G. H. Bengough, London, 1859. Bryant, London, 1 865 (2 1 1, with portrait of Cuyp's wife, 79, Ensor). 75. Cuyp (?) sketching in the Open. Two horsemen have dis- mounted on rising ground to the left. One, apparently Cuyp himself, bends over a stone table, sketching the landscape that stretches before him. In the distance are some towns and mills. On the right are a peasant, two women, and a child near a flock of sheep. The foreground is in shadow ; the middle distance is in sunshine. Signed A : Cuyp ; panel, 26^ inches by 35^ inches. Sales. D. Vis Blokhuyzen of Rotterdam, Paris, April i, 1870, No. 11 (5100 francs). Baron de Beurnonville, Paris, March 9, 1881, No. 249. 76. Portrait of the Artist. A half length, facing the spectator. He wears black, with a white collar and a broad-brimmed hat. Panel, 19^ inches by 17^ inches. In the collection of the King of Holland. Sales. Comte d'Espagnac, Paris, March i, 1866. R. Sabatier, Paris, May 30, 1883, No. 64. 76*7. Portrait of the Painter. Bust, nearly full face. Black dress and white collar ; long hair. Dark background. Panel, 15^ inches by 13 inches. Exhibited at the Royal Academy Winter Exhibition, London, 1903, No. 81. Then in the collection of Sir Edmund Verney, Bart. 77. Cuyp (?) sketching in the Open. Sm. Suppl. 18. In the left foreground, near the centre, the artist sits facing right with his back to the spectator. He is sketching the landscape spread out before him. Near him, to his left, his servant, seen in profile, stands looking on, holding in his right hand the bridle reins of their two horses ; one is a grey, with his tail to the spectator and his head turned to the right, while the other, a bay, is seen in profile to the right behind the grey, and is munching the grass. The flat landscape filling the right half of the picture is diversified by some trees, a stream, and a few cottages. On the extreme right are houses on a hill. In the distance is the sea. [Pendant to 502.] Panel, n inches by 18 inches. See Moes, Iconographia Batava, 1871, No. 7. Exhibited at the British Gallery by Earl Granville ; and at the Royal Academy Winter Exhibition, 1872, No. 153, by Mrs. Charles Cope. In the collection of Earl Granville, 1842 (Sm.). Sales. Earl Granville, London, July 21, 1845 (525, Dunford) ; but this picture, according to Art Sales, contained the figure of a sleeping shepherd which was apparently not in the Secretan picture. Charles Cope, London, 1872 (1249 los> ' Nation ; said by Art Sales to have been bought for the New York Museum). John Wilson, London, March 14, 1881. E. Secre'tan, Paris, July I, 1889, No. 107.