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 464 PHILIPS WOUWERMAN SECT. Exhibited at the Royal Academy Winter Exhibition, London, 1894, No. 63. In the Schonborn collection, 1719. Sale. Count Schonborn of Pommersfelden, Paris, May 17, 1867, No. 135 (65,500 francs). In the possession of the London dealer C. Wertheimer. In the collection of the late Maurice Kann, Paris. 668. A HUNTING PARTY HALTING. Sm. Suppl. 230. A stream divides the foreground into two halves, united by a bridge. On the right is a hunting party of a lady and four gentlemen. One man has dismounted to adjust his saddle with the help of a groom. Another rider in a red coat is on the right, seen from the back ; he holds a hawk on his wrist. A third waters his horse in the stream. To the left is a high tree ; behind it on a rock is a house. On the bridge are two travellers ; to the right are countrymen holding the hounds. In the right distance is a hill. A fine blue sky with a few white clouds. Signed on the right at foot with the monogram ; copper, 9 inches by 14 inches. Mentioned by Waagen (Suppl. 156). Sale. Chevalier Sebastien Erard, Paris, April 23, 1832, No. 173 (3201 francs). In the collection of Baron J. G. Verstolk van Soelen, No. 93, bought as a whole at the Hague, 1846, by T. Baring, H. B. Mildmay, and Lord Overstone. Sale. H. Bingham Mildmay, London, June 24, 1893, No. 86. In the collection of Jules Porges, Paris. 669. HALT AT THE CHASE. A hilly landscape. The game has been laid out. The huntsmen approach from all sides. In the collection of Count Orloff-Davidoff, St. Petersburg. 670. A HUNTING PARTY AT AN INN. Sm. Suppl. 270. Two cavaliers and a lady halt at a roadside inn. The men have dis- mounted. One of them, in a yellow jacket with hat in hand, sits looking at a young woman who pours out a glass of wine. The lady in blue sits on a bay horse almost facing the spectator. Near her, a grey horse feeds at a trough ; an ostler stands behind it. Farther back on the other side are a huntsman on foot, a lady on horseback with hawk on wrist, and a beggar, in front of a poor woman seated near a clump of trees. A couple of hounds and some poultry. A hilly landscape ; evening. " A most agreeable specimen of the master " (Sm.). Signed ; panel, 14 inches by 16 inches. Exhibited at the Royal Academy Winter Exhibition, London, 1877, No. 19. In the collection of Baron J. B. Puthon, Vienna; bought from his family in 1839 by Netscher. In the collection of Klerk de Reus, The Hague, 1842 (Sm.) ; bought as a whole by Rothschild. In the collection of the late Baron Ferdinand von Rothschild, Waddesdon Manor. 671. HALT AT THE CHASE. Sm. 411. At a stream in a hilly landscape a hunting party halt. A huntsman in a red coat on a