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 vii AELBERT CUYP 105 early period, with yellowish-brown tones in the landscape, and was painted about 1645. [Compare 58.] Panel, 16 inches by 26^ inches. Sales. J. van der Linden van Slingeland, Dordrecht, August 22, 1785, No. 103 (305 florins, Fouquet). Proley, Paris, 1787 (1302 francs). In the Demidoff collection. In the collection of Max Kann. In the possession, successively, of the Paris dealers Ch. Sedelmeyer and F. Kleinberger. In the collection of the Marquis d'Aoust, Paris. 342. FIVE COWS WITH A SLEEPING HERDSMAN. Sm. 109 and 208. In the meadows near Dordrecht. In the foreground four cows are lying down and a fifth, of reddish-brown colour, is standing behind them. The nearest of the four lying down is a yellowish-brown, and the next, farther left, is black with white spots ; both are in profile to the right. The cowherd lies asleep in the right foreground, with his back to the spectator ; beside him is his dog. In the background are a wind- mill and, beyond it, the church and houses of Dordrecht. On the extreme right of the middle distance are part of a fence and bushes. Warm evening sunlight. Known as the "small Dort." [Compare 368.] Signed, A. CUYP ; oak panel, 26^ inches by 39^ inches. Sale. (Possibly) Lord Rendlesham, London, June 20, 1806 (.182:55.) according to Sm. In the collection of Charles Oldfield Bowles, London, 1834 (Sm.). In the collection of Wynn Ellis, bequeathed in 1876 to the National Gallery. In the National Gallery, London, 1906 catalogue, No. 962. 343. COWS WITH A MILKMAID AND A SLEEPING HERDSMAN. Sm. 108. On the right are three red cows, two of them lying down and the third standing behind in profile to the right. From the right comes a woman with milk-pails. Behind her are rocks and bushes. In the foreground to the left, near the middle, a herdsman lies asleep near two brass milk-cans. In the distance is a landscape with a round tower. Towards sunset. Signed in the right-hand bottom corner, A. Cuyp ; canvas, 50 inches by 67^ inches. Mentioned by Ch. Blanc, Le Tresor de la Curiosite, ii. 264. Sales. Pierre de Grand Pre, Paris, February 16, 1809 (30,000 francs, bought in). O. Pein, Cologne, October 29, 1888, No. 22 (11,300 marks). Rumerskirch, Munich, March 23, 1903, No. 18. In the possession of the Paris dealer Ch. Sedelmeyer, "Catalogue of 100 Paintings," 1905, No. 5. In the Wilstach Gallery, Philadelphia, U.S.A. 344. Cattle and a Sleeping Herdsman. On a bank in the centre lies a man asleep ; a woman with a milk-pail on her head stands