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 278 PHILIPS WOUWERMAN SECT. hill crowned with houses ; on the low bank to the right is a village. On the left, near a water-mill, comes a laden mule. In the foreground horses are watering, and bathers are on the bank and in the river. In the right distance is a range of hills. Signed with the monogram ; canvas, 26 inches by 40^ inches. Engraved in the Galerie Lebrun (1792-96) as " Les Bords du Rhin." Exhibited at Berlin, 1890, No. 331. In the collection of Count Bruhl, Dresden. Sales. Etienne Le Roy of Brussels, Paris, April 18, 1842. John W. Wilson, Paris, April 27, 1874, No. 80. In the possession of the Paris dealer Ch. Sedelmeyer, "Catalogue of 300 Paintings," 1898, No. 230. In the Wallich collection, Berlin. 73. THE WATERING-PLACE. With men bathing. A man on the right wears a very bright-red costume. A sunset sky painted in a broad and sketchy manner. Panel. In the collection of Lord Palmerston, Broadlands. In the collection of A. E. M. Ashley, Broadlands. 74. RIDERS WATERING THEIR HORSES, AND BATHERS. Sm. 78 and Suppl. 32. On the right is a large piece of water ; a woman with two children is bathing. Farther away is a boy ; in the middle distance several others are in the water or in a boat. On the right near the centre two horsemen let their horses drink. The right-hand man is seen from the back, in a foreshortened view ; the left-hand man, who almost faces the spectator, has a boy mounted behind him. A third horse, seen in profile to the right, is about to enter the water ; his rider sits sideways and thus has his back to the spectator. A fourth rider on a grey is still on the bank ; he faces the spectator, but turns his head to the right to look at the bathers. On the extreme left two women with a basket of linen are on the bank. In the right middle distance a little wooden bridge stands high above the water ; on it are two children with a dog. It abuts upon the remains of a stone bridge, on which is a little toll-house overgrown with bushes. A late and very dark picture. [Pendant to 822.] Signed with the full monogram ; panel, 14 inches by 19 inches. Mentioned by Ch. Blanc, Le Tresor de la Curiostte, i. 165 ; and by Parthey (ii. 809). Engraved by Beaumont, No. 4, as "Les Nageurs." In the Barez collection. Sale. La Live de Jully, Paris, March 1770 (4001 francs, with pendant, Donjeu). Sold separately from the Robit collection, Paris, 1801 (2500 francs). In the collection of Prince Esterhazy, Vienna, 1842 (Sm., who valued it at In the Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest, 1906 catalogue, No. 490 (old No. 297). 75. THE^ WATERING-PLACE. Sm. 369. A barren land-