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| | lüder h niemeyer: Jacob van Ruisdael, The Stag Hunt |
 | | The group of trees on the right by the way dominated by a work-familiar dead high tree stump at which consequently one of the hunting servants awaits the stag, directing the hounds on this side by stretched arm and finger. |
 | | They (so then possibly the stag hunt, too) appeared in 4 numbers … before the letter, and … with these … For long he was considered as the greatest landscape draughtsman of newer time, and also his landscape studies were praised as model. |
 | | In the course of the years he was surpassed by other artists though, and especially obscured by (William) Woollett (1735-1785)” (Nagler; the latter’s “La Chasse au Sanglier” of 1760 in a proof before the letter and with provenences Masterman Sykes, 1824, + Esdaile, 1840, sold here). |
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