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ii GABRIEL METSU 327 to the right is a landscape with a bridge and a mill. It is an unattractive picture, but its authenticity is beyond question. Signed in full on the gun. Now in the Tronchin collection, Bessinge, near Geneva. 222. The Tired Sportsman. Sm. Suppl. 6. A comely young man sits resting under a great oak tree, leaning his right arm on a mound and holding up a dead partridge, at which his dog looks eagerly. He wears a red jacket with short sleeves, showing the white shirt underneath, blue breeches slashed at the knees, and buff boots. To the left are his gun and his plumed hat. Canvas, 20 inches by 15! inches. Formerly in the Hudtwalcker-Wesselhoeft collection. Now in the Kunsthalle, Hamburg, 1889 collection, p. 57. 222#. A Country House, with several Figures. Canvas, 39! inches by 34^ inches. Sale. Willem Lormier, The Hague, July 4, 1763 (Hoet, ii. 432), No. 179 (215 florins). 222^. A Country House, with Figures at an Open Window. Canvas, 39^ inches by 34^ inches. Sale. Willem Lormier, The Hague, July 4, 1763, No. 180 (500 florins) ; not mentioned by Hoet. 223. Three Cavaliers on Horseback, with a Greyhound. Canvas, 28 inches by 36 inches. Sale. Count von Festetics, Vienna, April n, 1859, No. 28. 224. A supposed Portrait of the Artist. Sm. 28 and Suppl. 8. A half-length portrait of a man of forty (or fifty, Sm.). His body is turned to the right, but his head almost faces the spectator. He wears a brown coat, a white cravat, and cuffs, and a cap lined with white ; he has long hair and a short moustache. He is smoking a Gouda clay pipe, which he holds in his right hand. The compiler does not remember to have seen the picture, but the foregoing description does not suggest a portrait of Metsu, who died at 38 or 39. " This interesting picture is painted with great breadth and masterly effect" (Sm.). Panel, 6^ inches by 5 inches. See Moes, Iconographia Batava, 5005, Nos. 4, 5, and 7. Sales. (Probably) L. Witsen, Amsterdam, May 25, 1746 (Hoet, ii. 186), No. 6 (40 florins). G. Braamcamp, Amsterdam, July 31, 1771, No. 133 (102 florins, Ploos van Amstel). I. Stinstra, Amsterdam, June 30, 1829, No. 10 (350 florins, Brond- geest). Sir Charles Bagot, 1836 (55 : 135.). In the collection of the Baron Verstolk van Soelen, The Hague, 1842 (Sm.). Now in the collection of the Earl of Northbrook, London, 1889 catalogue, No. 75.