Page:Hofstede de Groot catalogue raisonné, Volume 4, 1912.djvu/605

 xvi PAULUS POTTER 591 lion's head. On the right a negro on a grey horse with black spots, who holds a naked sword in his right hand, turns away from the lioness which he has just attacked. On the extreme left of the middle distance another turbaned rider is seen beyond a corpse lying on the ground. 7 inches by 15^ inches. (9) The Boar-Hunt. Sm. Suppl. 6 ; W. 94*. Under a tree on the right a peasant tries to drive a spear into the neck of a wild boar, which has been attacked by six hounds. The furious boar has bitten off one hound's paw, and disembowels another hound with his tusks, while he stifles a third hound which is lying beneath him. At the back is a peasant on horseback with a sword in his uplifted right hand. From the left distance three horses gallop forward. 7 inches by 15^ inches. (10) The Monkey-Hunt. Sm. Suppl. 9 ; W. 94^. In the left foreground three monkeys sit at the foot of a tree. Two of them wash their faces with the bird-lime which has been put for them in a shallow dish, while the third tries on a little shoe. A fourth monkey climbs the tree. On the right, farther back, behind a tree, two negroes in hiding watch the monkeys. 6| inches by 8 inches. (u) The Bear-Hunt. Sm. Suppl. 10 ; W. 94*. A huntsman on a dappled grey horse takes aim with his gun at a bear which is attacked by three hounds. The bear crushes one hound, lying under him, with his paw, and bites another in the side. A fourth hound runs up from the left background. 6 inches by 8 inches. (12) The Chamois- Hunt. Sm. Suppl. n ; W. 94^ In a barren and rocky hill-landscape a huntsman in red stands behind a rock in the right foreground. He has just fired at a chamois, which falls mortally wounded in the left middle distance. 6^ inches by 8 inches. (13) The Huntsman condemned. Sm. Suppl. 17 ; W. 947. Under a tree on a bank to the right sits the lion, the king of beasts, holding with his uplifted right paw a sceptre with which he touches the elephant standing before him on the left. Around him are a bull, a wild boar, a leopard and a goat as judges. In front of them sits the fox, as registrar of the court, reading the indictment against the huntsman, who, with hands bound, is brought up by the bear. In front of him to the left are two wolves. The other animals follow behind in a long line. In the left foreground the huntsman's restive horse is tied by its bridle to a tree, on which sits a monkey. Farther back a bear and a wild boar lead four hounds into court. The upper picture in the centre ; 9 inches by 32 inches. (14) The Huntsman punished. Sm. Suppl. 18; W. 947^. On the left, at the foot of a tree from which hang a hunting-horn and a wallet,