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 vii AELBERT CUYP in straw hat. Farther to the right are two large milk-cans. On a hill in the right middle distance stands a yellow cow, beside a black-and-white cow which is lying down. Near them are two men ; one, in a hat and red jacket, is seated ; the other, in a cap and yellow jacket, is standing. Both are looking down at the river and have their backs to the spectator. Near them lies a dog. [Compare 364.] [Pendant to 275.] Signed in the right-hand bottom corner, A. cuijp ; canvas, 37 inches by 47! inches. Mentioned by Ch. Blanc, Le Tresor de la Curiosite, ii. 129 and 191. Exhibited at the British Institution, 1829 ; and at the Hamburg Kunsthalle, 1887, No. 28. According to Ch. Blanc : Sales. J. van der Linden van Slingeland, Dordrecht, August 22, 1785, No. 8 1 (1007 florins, Fouquet). Lebrun, Paris, April n, 1791 (5150 francs, Rubes) ; but the measurements of this picture (Sm. 21), given as 43 inches by 54 inches (or 40 inches by 52 inches Sm.) do not agree with those given above. Sales. Robit, Paris, May 21, 1801 (10,100 francs, Constantin). Sir Simon Clarke, Bart., May 8, 1840 (955 : ios., Arteria for Sir S. Scott) ; it was in the Clarke collection, 1834 (Sm.). Earl of Shrewsbury, London, 1857 (^593, Emery). Scarisbrick, London, May, 1861 (^420, Ripp). Nieuwenhuys, London, December 13, 1886, No. 62 (255, Meyer of Berlin). In the Weber collection, Hamburg, 1907 catalogue, No. 276 (old No. 236). 368. MILKING-TIME (or, Cattle and Figures). Four cows and a milkmaid with her cans are in a pasture at evening. One cow lies on the left, facing the spectator, behind some low bushes. Two others lie in the centre, facing left. The fourth stands behind to the right, facing the spectator. In front of her stands the milkmaid facing right and pouring milk from a pail into one of the cans. Behind the cows, on the extreme right, sits the herdsman with his dog. On the top of a bank behind him a man stands facing the spectator j he is conversing with a man who is seated with his back to the spectator ; both figures are seen against the sky. In the background beyond a farm and a windmill are the church and houses of Dordrecht. Known as the "large Dort." [Compare 342.] Signed, A. CUYP ; canvas, 62 inches by 78 inches. Mentioned by Waagen (ii. 296). Exhibited at the Royal Academy Winter Exhibition, 1871, No. 232 ; lent by Wynn Ellis. In the collection of Lord Bristol. In the collection of Lord Coventry, at whose sale it was purchased by Wynn Ellis. In the collection of Wynn Ellis, bequeathed to the National Gallery, 1876. In the National Gallery, London, 1906 catalogue, No. 961. 369. COWS AND A MILKMAID. Sm. 225. On the right in