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 160 CASPAR NETSCHER SECT. 360. Vertumnus and Pomona. Canvas, i inches by 18 inches. Sale. Amsterdam, March 2, 1869, No. 63. 37. Vertumnus and Pomona. In a garden adorned with a statue of Hercules, Pomona sits in front of a sculptured wall. Her right arm rests on a balustrade. She holds a knife in her right hand, and a fruit in her left. Beside her is Vertumnus, in the form of an old woman, speaking earnestly to her. Canvas, 15 inches by I2| inches. Sale. Clave-Bouhaben, Cologne, June 4, 1894, No. 278. 37*7. Vertumnus and Pomona. Engraved by Basan under the title "La Curiosite Nuisiblc." The original is lost. An enlarged copy canvas, 58 inches by 45 inches is in the Dijon Museum, 1883 catalogue, No. 158. 37^. Pyramus and Thisbe. In front lies the nude corpse of Pyramus, stretched out from right to left. His left arm is at his side ; his right arm rests behind his head. Behind him kneels Thisbe, looking somewhat to the right at him. With her right hand she raises the dagger to her bare bosom. Canvas, about 26^ inches by 25^ inches. In the collection of A. Bevernaege, Ghent. 38. THE DEATH OF CLEOPATRA. Sm. 3. She sits in the left foreground on a handsome couch in her bedroom. She wears a white silk dress, and supports herself on her right arm as she applies the asp to her bare breast with her right hand. Her left hand rests on her left knee. A large drapery falls over her right shoulder. On the right, behind a stone table supported by child-figures, a maid-servant, turned to the right, holds both hands to her face. On the table is a fine carpet, on which is a dish full of fruit and leaves. Signed in full, and dated 1673 ; canvas, 20^ inches by i6| inches. Replicas or copies, two or more of which may be identical, are or were 1. Canvas, 19^ inches by 17 inches. Sale. M. P. Krtiger, Hamburg, September I, 1828, No. 74. Bequeathed by Fraulein Sillem, 1877, to the Kunsthalle. In the Kunsthalle, Hamburg, 1887 catalogue, No. 117. 2. Canvas, 13 inches by 10 inches. Sales. Amsterdam, April 22, 1771, No. 67 (77 florins, Yver). N. Nieuhoff, Amsterdam, April 14, 1777, No. 148 (99 florins, De Winter). 3. Canvas, 22 inches by 18^ inches. Sale. A. M. Penninck Hoofd, Amsterdam, April 19, 1819, No. 33* (158 florins, De Vries). 4. Panel, 13^ inches by 1 1 inches. Sale. Paris, March 22, 1845, No. 27 (140 francs). 5. Canvas, 22^ inches by 18^ inches.