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 482 PHILIPS WOUWERMAN SECT. Engraved by Moyreau, 1738, No. 30, as "La Chasse aux Eperviers " ; and in the Orleans Gallery (Galerie du Palais Royal], In the collection of the Due d'Orteans, 1738 ; it was there in 1798 (valued at .200, according to Sm.). 7160. Return of a Hawking Party. They water their horses. The sky has been repainted. Panel, i8 inches by 24 inches. Sale.M. Wolff, Berlin, May 25, 1857, No. 293. 717. Return from the Chase. In the right foreground a young lady dressed in silk rides a whitish-yellow horse ; she turns round to speak to huntsmen resting near a fallen tree. One of them fondles a dog; the other blows a horn. Near the lady is a woman in black with a yellow skirt and a hood. In the centre is a groom beside a mule carrying a dead stag. Behind him comes a lady with hawk on wrist on a bay horse. A gentleman gallops towards the left distance. A huntsman with hawk on wrist on a bay horse and a man with a gun ford a stream. There are hills in the distance. In the manner of Pieter van Laer. Canvas, i6 inches by 22 inches. Sale. G. Th. A. M. Baron van Brienen van de Grootelindt, Paris, May 8, 1865, No. 64. 718. After the Stag Hunt. Huntsmen and ladies halt in an open plain. In the centre a mounted huntsman holds up the stag's entrails on a stick for the hounds to leap at. A huntsman with his back to the spectator blows a horn, near a group of cavaliers who surround two ladies. A man-servant behind him holds a bottle. On the left two men hold three saddled horses in the shade of trees. In the foreground lie hunting implements and game. In the centre of the landscape are a river, a village, and three hills. [Compare 709.] Signed on the left, Ph. Wouwerman ; canvas, 13^ inches by 18 inches. The description and size agree with those of 709, but that was said to be on panel. Sales. Count Koucheleff Besborodko, Paris, June 5, 1869, No. 41. 719. THE RETURN FROM THE CHASE. In the fore- ground huntsmen cut up the dead stag. One holds up the entrails on a stick and throws some to the hounds. To the right ladies and gentlemen have dismounted. There are beaters and hounds. In the left middle distance is a park with a statue. Sunset. Signed with the full monogram ; panel, 18 inches by 25^ inches. Exhibited at Vienna, 1873, No. 115. In the Urzais collection. Sale. Isaac Pereire, Paris, March 6, 1872, No. 178 (13,000 francs). In the collection of G. R. von Epstein, Vienna, 1873. 719*. The Return from the Chase. i8 inches by 24 inches. Sale. P. H. Edlin and others, London, December 14, 1903, No. 96.