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 478 PHILIPS WOUWERMAN SECT. Signed with the monogram. In the Rumjanzof Museum, Moscow, 1901 catalogue, No. 560. 707. RETURN OF THE HAWKING PARTY. Sm. 361 ; M. 84. To the left, on a road leading past a hill with three trees to an old house, a lady in yellow on a grey horse converses with a dismounted cavalier. He holds out the hawk on his wrist to the lady, and grasps a hunting-horn in his other hand. Near them are a page with a hound, two falconers playing with a hound, and a huntsman with the pack. Farther away on the hill are two cavaliers and a huntsman with hawk on wrist. On the right are bird-catchers with hawks. At the back is a landscape with a country house on a hill and distant mountains. A fine early picture, but the landscape is not so attractive as in the pendant. [Pendant to 549.] Signed on the left at foot with the early monogram ; panel, 12 inches by 1 6 inches. Engraved by Moyreau, No. 84, in 1756, as "Petite Meute de Chiens"; and by Le Bas. In the collection of Crozat, Baron de Thiers, Paris, 1756. In the Hermitage Palace, St. Petersburg, 1901 catalogue, No. 1032. 708. After the Chase. M. 31. On the left is the entrance to a mansion with a statue of Diana and a fountain. On the steps stands a lady, with a negro to hold her parasol ; a cavalier bows and offers her a roe which a page brings forward. His piebald horse is held on the right by a groom who also carries his cloak. In the left foreground, in shadow, two huntsmen sit near the rich spoils of the chase. On the right, behind the piebald, a mounted man feeing the spectator blows a horn. A lady on horseback bends down towards a little dog on the ground. She holds another little dog behind her, and has a hawk on her left wrist. Farther right a nurse lets a Jittle girl ride on a goat which another girl tempts away with a dainty. Beyond and farther back come a huntsman with the pack, a laden mule, and a mounted man. There are other figures in the distant valley, where there are several mansions. [Compare 705 and 714.] 19^ inches by 25 J inches. Engraved by Moyreau, No. 31, as "Le Present du Chasseur." In the collection of the Due d'Orle"ans, 1738. yoSa. Returning from the Chase. Some cavaliers and ladies with horses and many figures. Of the best period. Sale. Amsterdam, April 15, 1739 (Hoet, i. 576), No. 10 (525 florins). 7o8/>. Returning from the Chase. Full of figures and horses. 43 inches by 36 inches. In the collection of Johannes Lubbeling, Amsterdam, 1752 (Hoet, ii. 518). 7o8r. A Party returning from the Chase. With game. 20 inches by 27 inches. Sale. Willem van Wouw and others, The Hague, May 30, 1764 (Terw. 356), No. 2 (1290 florins it had been bought for 1200 florins).