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 vm PHILIPS WOUWERMAN 283 corner is a farm with a vine-clad arbour and a high pigeon-loft in front of it. On the second hill is a low thatched cottage with a vine-clad arbour in front of the door. On the road Jeading past it are a peasant and two horsemen. Long ranges of hills are in the distance to the right. "This beautiful picture is painted in the artist's grey or silvery manner " (Sm.). Signed in the right-hand bottom corner with the full monogram ; panel, 16 inches by 20 inches. In the collection of the Duke of Mecklenburg, Ludwigslust, 1842 (Sm.). In the Schwerin Museum, 1882 catalogue, No. 1126. 90. WATERING HORSES. In the foreground a man in a violet coat leads his brown-and-white spotted horse by the bridle to the left into the water. To the left, behind him, another horseman halts in profile to the left, and turns his head to the front towards his comrade. To the right, behind him, stands a woman with a child in her arms ; beside her sits a man. Beyond them is a pasture ; in front of them is a dog. In the extreme left foreground is seen the prow of a boat ; a man in the boat holds a rope trailing through the water ; the other end of the rope is held by a rider with a sack before him who waters his horse in the stream. On a wall in the middle distance behind them are two anglers and a man looking on. There are buildings on the farther bank. The picture has become extremely dark. Signed on the right with the early monogram ; panel, 12 inches by 14^ inches. A copy was in the sale Adriaan Holzman van Baarle van Romunde and others, Amsterdam, October 31, 1905, No. 130. Acquired by Gustavus III. of Sweden, from the Sack collection, 1779. In the National Museum, Stockholm, 1900 catalogue, No. 718. 91. WATERING AND EXERCISING HORSES. Sm. 410 and Suppl. 244. On a flat place in the middle distance of a broad landscape a horseman is galloping round a post, at which stands the riding- master with a whip. A second rider on a grey waits farther back. Spectators stand or lie round. In the centre, nearer the front, a horseman leads a fine grey past a lady and gentleman, who are followed by a boy ; a dog barks at the horse. The gentleman wears cloak and sword, plumed hat and riding boots ; the lady wears a blue coat over her yellow dress, and holds a fan in her right hand. In the right foreground horses are being led into the water. One rider with a boy in a red cap behind him sits on his horse, which stands in the water drinking. On the bank is a washerwoman ; two bathers are coming out. A groom on horseback leads another horse into the water. A boy on a dappled-grey, leading a brown horse, rides past a tree down a steep road into the water ; the brown horse kicks out at two boys. The road leads over a stone bridge to an old castle, with ruined towers, on one of which is still mounted a cannon. In the distance are a river, woods, scattered houses, a town, and a range of blue hills. The work belongs to the brighter middle period. Signed in the left-hand bottom corner with the full monogram in square Roman letters ; canvas, 32^ inches by 50^ inches. Sent by the Archduke Leopold Wilhelm from Brussels to Vienna, 1651.