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 xvm CASPAR NETSCHER 159 matron, stands beside Pomona. She leans her right arm on a table with a cloth, and holds an apple in her left hand. Very carefully painted. Canvas, 21 inches by i8| inches. Sale. (Fiseau ?) Amsterdam, August 30, 1797, No. 158 (37 florins, Reyers). 33. Vertumnus and Pomona. Full-length figures. Pomona sits on a fine carpet, beside a bust on a column adorned with fruit, flowers, and plants. Beside her stands Vertumnus. In front are many fruits. Canvas, 2o| inches by 17! inches. Sales. G. van der Pot, Rotterdam, June 6, 1808, No. 89 (310 florins, Netscher). F. M. Netscher, Rotterdam, April 8, 1829 (325 florins, Netscher; bought in). 34. Vertumnus and Pomona. Sm. 12, and Suppl. 9. Vertumnus, in the form of an old woman in a grey gown and an orange cloak, leans on a stick and whispers in the ear of Pomona who sits with a pruning-knife in her hand. At the back is a grove with a statue of Pan. [Possibly identical with 35.] Panel but canvas, according to Sm. 17 inches by 13^ inches. Engraved, according to Sm. In the collection of Griffier Fagel, 1752 (Hoet, ii. 411). Sales. Julienne, Paris, March 30, 1767 (201 francs) Sm., but improbable. Griffier Fagel, London, May 22, 1801 (.47 : 55.) see Buchanan, i. 301. Edward Solly, London, 1834 canvas, 20 inches by 17 inches (Sm.). 35. Vertumnus and Pomona. Sm. Suppl. 39. A young lady, in a white silk gown with a blue scarf over her left shoulder, sits leaning on a marble table. She holds a pruning-knife ; in her lap lies an apple. She listens to the conversation of a friendly old woman, in a brown cloak and black kerchief, who stands leaning on a stick, on the other side of the table. Beyond is a statue of Venus. At the back is a grove with two statues in niches. On the table-cloth lie several peaches. [Possibly identical with 34.] Panel, 19 inches by 15 inches. In the possession of the London dealer Smith before 1842 ; sold to Sir Thomas Baring, 1845 (for 150). Sale. Sir Thomas Baring, London, 1848 (18 : i8s., J. M. and S. M. Smith). In the collection of Sir Thomas Baring, 1848 according to a MS. note by Sm. in his own copy of his catalogue. 350. Vertumnus and Pomona. In the Neues Palais, Potsdam, 1864 (Parthey, ii. 187). 36. Vertumnus and Pomona. In a park with imposing buildings, Pomona, as a young woman, sits on the pedestal of a vase of hewn stone. She wears a white silk gown with a red drapery covering her right arm. Beside her stands Vertumnus. On the ground are flowers and fruit. Canvas, 16 inches by 14 inches. Sale. J. J. Chapuis, Brussels, December 4, 1865, No. 287.