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xxi EGLON HENDRIK VAN DER NEER 517 164. Portrait of a Man with a Boy. Three-quarter length ; seated. He has a full wig and wears a satin coat embroidered with gold and lined with blue, and a lace cravat. He lays his left hand on the head of a boy standing beside him and holding an arrow in his right hand. They both look at the spectator. Landscape background. 13 inches by 9^ inches. Sale. Wedewer of Wiesbaden, Cologne, May I, 1899, No. 165 164*. Portrait of a Woman with her Child. Landscape back- ground. Canvas, 19^ inches by 16 inches. Sale. Delitt and others, Cologne, February 5, 1900, No. 84. 165. PORTRAIT OF A LADY AND GENTLEMAN. A so-called portrait of Louis XIV. and the Duchesse de la Valliere, who cannot, however, be identified with the sitters. A good picture. Panel, 1 1 inches by 8 inches. Sales. Hawley and others, London, March 4, 1899. London, December 20, 1902, No. 68. 1 66. A ROCKY LANDSCAPE. In the foreground of a rocky landscape grow large lettuces and other plants. Between the rocks is a view of a plain, enlivened with cattle and travellers, with villages here and there. The thistle in the foreground is repeated exactly in 188. [Pendant to 167.] Signed in full, and dated 1702 j copper, 9 inches by 13 inches. In the collection of Johann Wilhelm, Elector Palatine (who died in 1716), Dtisseldorf (Van Gool, ii. 559). In the Mannheim Gallery. In the Augsburg Museum, 1899 catalogue, No. 632. 167. A HILLY LANDSCAPE. In the foreground of a hilly landscape grow large leafy plants and flowering shrubs. Hills rise to right and left ; between them in the middle distance is a town. [Pendant to 1 66.] Signed in full on the right at foot ; copper, 9 inches by 13 inches. In the collection of Johann Wilhelm, Elector Palatine (who died in 1716), Dusseldorf (Van Gool, ii. 562). In the Mannheim Gallery. In the Augsburg Gallery, 1899 catalogue, No. 633. 1 68. LANDSCAPE. In front is a great tree-trunk by a pool alive with ducks. At the edge of a leafy wood is a road with a bridge. Copper, 6 inches by 5 inches. In the collection of Johann Wilhelm, Elector Palatine (who died in 1716), DUsseldorf (Van Gool, ii. 566). In the Mannheim Gallery. In the Augsburg Gallery, 1899 catalogue, No. 634. 169. Landscape; Sunset. Panel, 10 inches by 14 inches.