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 vni PHILIPS WOUWERMAN 281 83. Watering Horses at the River. Men are watering their horses at a river in which people are bathing. Signed with the full monogram. Exhibited at the Royal Academy Winter Exhibition, London, 1889, No. 85. In the collection of R. Baillie Hamilton, London. 84. GROOMS WATERING HORSES. Sm. 418 and Suppl. 197. In the right centre, at the foot of a bridge, over which comes a haywain with two brown horses, a man on a brown horse, seen from the back, is about to ride into the water. He leads a rearing dappled-grey, which is to the left of him. To the right and farther back are three other horses in the water ; one is a white horse with a rider on its back ; beside it is a brown horse ; behind it to the left is a grey ridden by a man and a child. Farther away some boys are bathing. In the left foreground a naked man snatches up his clothes and moves aside from the dappled-grey, at which a dog is barking. At the back, half on the bridge, a man draws a square net from the water. Two persons look on. Farther left are two beggars. [Pendant to 939.] Panel, 13^ inches by 16 inches. Mentioned by Waagen (iii. 47). Engraved by J. Scott in the Stafford Gallery, No. 98. Sale. Amsterdam, June 26, 1799, No. 12 (425 florins, Van der Schley). In the collection of Lord Francis Egerton, Bridgewater House, 1829 (Sm.). In the collection of the Earl of Ellesmere, Bridgewater House, 1891 catalogue, No. 283. 85. WATERING HORSES. In the foreground is a river, which stretches away to the left distance. In the centre foreground a man on a dark horse rides out of the water, leading a dappled horse. To the left a horse stands in the water, drinking ; a man and a boy sit on its back. To the left of it is another horse with its head turned away from the spectator. On the right a white horse on the bank is leaping to the right. There are people bathing and women washing clothes. Two boys are swimming to the left ; in the middle distance is a ferry-boat with cattle. On the right, through a ruined archway, in the Italian style, a man comes riding on a mule, followed by another mule. Signed in the right-hand bottom corner with the full monogram ; panel, i inches by 14! inches. In the Electoral Gallery, Munich. In the Aeltere Pinakothek, Munich, 1904 catalogue, No. 503. 86. Watering Horses. A groom on a brown horse leads a white horse which is turning round and rearing up. A dog barks at it. To the right is another groom on a brown horse ; a peasant lifts a boy up behind the groom. To the left two persons are bathing in a river. On the bank behind a tree and a pigeon-loft is a barn, in front of which children are playing. Behind the horses women are washing clothes at the riverside. In the right-hand corner is an overturned basket. On the horizon are hills. Blue sky with white clouds. Panel, n inches by 14 inches.