Page:Hofstede de Groot catalogue raisonné, Volume 2, 1909.djvu/476

 460 PHILIPS WOUWERMAN SECT. 656. A HUNTING PARTY HALTING AT AN INN. Sm. 228 and 469, and Suppl. 125. The chief group consists of a lady and two gentlemen. One man, in a scarlet coat on a grey horse, drinks from a jug. The other has dismounted ; a lad adjusts his stirrup. The lady on a roan horse, facing the spectator, converses with the landlord, who is seen from the back. Behind him a boy carries a frightened child out of the way of two fighting dogs. Farther back on the other side are a lady and gentleman. The hilly distance is partly obscured by haze. " This beautiful picture is a fine example of the artist's third style of painting " (Sm.). The dismounted cavalier "is evidently a portrait of the artist" (Sm.). Canvas, 25 inches by 28 inches. Mentioned by Waagen (ii. 18). Exhibited at the British Institution, London, 1826 and 1827. Sales. Earl of Bessborough, London, February and March 1801 (194). Lord Rendlesham, London, 1810 (^333, Lord Yarmouth for the Prince Regent). In the Royal collection, Buckingham Palace, London, No. 63 ; it was there in 1842 (Sm., who valued it at .500). 657. A HALT OF SPORTSMEN. Sm. 255 and Suppl. 95.- A hunting party halts at an inn, the corner of which, with a leafless tree, is seen at the edge of a wood to the left. In the centre is a lady in yellow on a bay horse facing three-quarters left. To the right of her a huntsman with hawk on wrist sits on a grey horse ; he is seen from the back and faces three-quarters right. Behind him is another horseman. To the left, in front of the inn, a dismounted cavalier jests with the hostess, who hands him a glass of beer. In front of them a man brings a basket of hay for the horses. Behind them, a gentleman bids farewell to a lady in a coach, who looks out from behind the curtain at a window. In the right foreground a groom lets two hounds drink at a stream ; farther back a rider waters his horse ; another horseman rides forward. A woman with a child on her back, and another in front of her, stands in the right near the man with the hawk. "An excellent picture of superior quality, painted in the artist's third manner " (Sm.). [Possibly identical with 684.] Panel, 22^ inches by 24^ inches. Mentioned by Waagen (ii. 18). Exhibited in the British Institution, London, 1826 and 1827. Sales. Jan Gildemeester Jansz, Amsterdam, June ii, 1800, No. 270 (2072 florins, Labouchere). P. de Smeth van Alphen, Amsterdam, August i, 1810, No. 120 (2500 florins, Texier). In the Royal collection, Buckingham Palace, London, No. 105 ; it was in the Royal collection, 1829 (Sm., who valued it at j6oo). 658. HALT OF A HUNTING PARTY AT AN INN. Sm. 413. The party includes fourteen persons. The corner of an inn is seen to the left. A lady in blue, with hawk on wrist and a little dog behind her, is mounted on a grey horse ; she bends forward to speak to a hunts-