Page:Hofstede de Groot catalogue raisonné, Volume 4, 1912.djvu/473

 xv ADRIAEN VAN DE VELDE 459 On both sides are rocky banks. Out of the water on the right rise two antique pillars with fragments of the architrave, frieze, and cornice of a temple. To the left of this, in the middle distance, is a village at the foot of a long range of hills. Evening. " A capital picture . . . the figures are unusually large and are painted in a broad free manner" (Sm.). [Cf. 345-] Signed in full, and dated 1659 ; canvas, 45 inches by 66 inches. Studies for the picture are preserved in the Louvre and the Darmstadt Museum. A copy by St. Messerer is in the Bremen Kunsthalle, 1892 catalogue, No. 88. A somewhat smaller picture, corresponding to the above description, was, according to Sm., in the Sales. P. Locquet, Amsterdam, September 22, 1783, No. 393 (530 florins) measuring 46 inches by 55 inches. London, 1817 (126). In the collection of the Duke of Mecklenburg, Ludwigslust, 1792 and 1834 (Sm.). In the Schwerin Museum, 1882 catalogue, No. 1051. Sa. The Flight into Egypt. On a ferry-boat. Sales. London, 1810 (126, Birch). Birch, London, 1881 (109, Lesser). 9. The Flight into Egypt. In a landscape, with a hilly distance and with clumps of trees to the left, a great ferry-boat crosses a river. It fills almost the whole width of the picture. In the boat are eight adults and three children, with a cow drinking. A woman with a child at her breast sits on a mule. A man stands conversing with her. Beside him sits another man in a thoughtful attitude. To the right of the cow a man has one foot in the water. [Cf. 345.] Signed with a forged signature, and dated 1672 ; canvas, 46^ inches by 67 inches. Exhibited at Manchester, 1857, No. 773 ; wrongly identified in the catalogue with Sm. 128 (see 8). Sales. Perkins and others, London, February 29, 1896, No. 39 (^252). London, June 20, 1903, No. 56. The brothers Bourgeois, Cologne, October 27, 1904, No. 91 (18,850 mark, Thuar). 10. Repose on the Flight into Egypt. Sm. 154. The Virgin, wearing a blue vest and yellow kerchief, sits on a cushion upon the ground, holding the Child in her lap. She looks at St. Joseph, who sits on a square stone pedestal which forms a fountain. The ass is on her farther side. Behind her a sheep browses, near the foot of a large tree. " Of excellent quality " (Sm.). Signed, and dated 1668 ; canvas, io| inches by I2| inches. In the collection of Charles Brind, London, 1834 (Sm.). 11. GETHSEMANE. Above to the left kneels the angel in the form of a handsome nude youth with great wings and a salmon-coloured