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vin PHILIPS WOUWERMAN 443 611. A Hawking Party. Sm. Suppl. 52. A lady on a prancing grey horse, a gentleman on an iron-grey horse, and another horseman. A falconer with hawks walks towards a wood. On the other side another falconer with a perch of hawks comes through a tunnel. [Possibly identical with 598 ? ] Panel, 7^ inches by 10 inches. In the Hermitage Palace, St. Petersburg, 1842 (Sm., who valued it at j8o). If it is identical with No. 1030 (598), Sm.'s description is wholly inaccurate ; but Sm. says that that picture was at Tsarskoye Selo in 1842. 6 1 2. Landscape with a Hawking Party. Sm. 471. [Probably identical with 603.] Probably the original of the engraving, " Une Grande Chasse a 1'Oiseau," by Le Bas (Sm.). Mentioned by Buchanan, Memoirs of Painting, ii. 191. Imported into England by De la Hante (valued at 840). Bought by Charles Duncombe, of Duncombe Park, before 1843 (for 900, according to Sm. in his annotated copy of his catalogue). In the collection of the Earl of Feversham, Duncombe Park, 1857 (Waagen, Suppl. 494). 613. Landscape with a Hawking Party. Along a defile, bounded on the right by a broken hill on which are a tree-stump, a hedge, and bushes, and on the left by a stream, rides a huntsman with his back to the spectator. He has a hawk on his wrist and watches a large bird in the air. Another rider on a dun horse has halted farther away to watch it. His groom stands conversing with him ; he carries a large staff to scare the game. Near them are two dogs, one of which is drinking at the stream. Great clouds in the sky are reflected in the water. Panel, 12^ inches by 17^ inches. Sales. Meffre the elder, Paris, February 25, 1845, No. 104. Pierard, Paris, March 20, 1860, No. 100 (18,800 francs). 613*7. Hawking. [Apparently a pendant to 634.] Panel, 10^ inches by 14 inches. In the Schonborn collection, Pommersfelden, 1863 (Parthey, ii. 803) ; but not in the sale of 1867 or in the 1894 catalogue. . A Hawking Party. [Pendant to 635*7.] Sale. Temple, London, 1874 (315, with pendant, Brooks). 613^. Hawking. Three huntsmen in a landscape have halted and are about to cast up the hawks. One man is mounting his grey horse which is held by a boy. Farther right are a lady on a grey horse and a man on a bay. In front are three dogs. In the distance are hills and horses. Panel, 14 inches by 12 inches. Sale. P. C. Nahuys, born F. M. Hodgson, C. F. Royer, born Kerst, and others, Amsterdam, November 14, 1883, No. 181.