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 120 AELBERT CUYP SECT. 395. COWS IN A RIVER. Sm. Suppl. 4. To the right, on the low bank of a river on which are sailing-boats, a herdsman sits near a herd of ten cows. Three have entered the water to drink. In the misty distance, to the right, are a church-tower, windmills, and other buildings of a town ; to the left are the ruins of a castle, identified as Loevenstein, which is at least doubtful. Sunset. "Painted with a rich impasto of colour " (Sm.). Signed in the right-hand bottom corner, A. cuyp ; panel, 19 inches by 29^ inches. Acquired by the Empress Catherine II. In the Hermitage Palace, St. Petersburg, 1901 catalogue, No. noi. 396. COWS IN A RIVER. Sm. Suppl. 5. Five cows Sm. says six stand on a bank projecting into a river, with many sailing-boats on it. One cow, dark with white spots, is drinking. The rest stand in a group. A summer evening. Quite in the style of the Budapest picture (390), but not so strongly lighted. Panel, 15 inches by 22 inches. In the collection of Prince E. Sapiega, confiscated in 1832. Acquired by the Emperor Nicholas I. In the Hermitage Palace, St. Petersburg, 1901 catalogue, No. 1104. 397. COWS IN A RIVER. To the right, at the foot of a high hill, a strip of land juts out into a river. Here are two herdsmen, one standing with a staff in his hand, the other lying down. Near them are six cows, four brown, one black spotted, another red. One cow turns towards the projecting land, another comes away from it, a third lies down in the centre, the fourth and fifth are drinking in the river. The sixth, a red cow, stands in the water at the end of the strip of land, and turns its head back to the right. To the left is the river, which divides into two branches in the middle distance ; the left-hand branch disappears behind a small projecting rock. A rowing-boat with men aboard proceeds in that direction, followed on the right at some distance by a sailing-boat. In the distance, to the left of the foot of the hill, is a town with many towers. Fine sunlight. At Berlin there is an almost exact replica (388) of this picture, on a somewhat smaller scale. Both the original and the replica are of the master's best period. In the right-hand bottom corner a " C " in white paint survives from the signature; panel, 16 inches by 2i inches. Sale. Boymans, Utrecht, August 31, 1811, No. B. 16. In the Boymans Museum, Rotterdam, 1907 catalogue, No. 56. 398. Landscape with Cattle and Figures. Sm. 57. In the foreground cows stand in the water. Trees and ruins. Warm sunlight. Mentioned by Buchanan, Memoirs of Painting, i. 245 ; and by Ch. Blanc, Le Tresor de la Curiojite, ii. 168. Sales. J. van der Linden van Slingeland, Dordrecht, August 22, 1785, (possibly) No. 99 (105 florins, Coders) measuring 19 inches by 28 inches. C. A. de Calonne, London, March 23, 1795, No. 47 (231).