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 292 PHILIPS WOUWERMAN SECT. company with a man on foot. A third man sits by the roadside. High up on the steep rock to the right are trees and a low tower. Dark in tone. Signed in the right-hand bottom corner with the full monogram ; canvas, 24^ inches by 22 inches. Sale. G. Van der Pot, Rotterdam, June 6, 1808, No. 144 (1055 florins, Johannes Eck and Son, for the Rijksmuseum). In the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, 1907 catalogue, No. 271$. 117. THE VILLAGE SMITHY. Sm. 339; M. 40. In the centre a boy holds a white horse, facing left. A farrier with a red cap holds the horse's near fore-foot on his knee. The rider stands behind the horse. Farther left a peasant on a brown horse with a sack over his saddle stands looking on. Behind him to the left is a peasant woman with a bundle on her head. In the left foreground the farrier's man comes with the white-hot shoe from the smithy, which is in a cellar under a house overgrown with vines. Beside the house are a woman seated with a child at her breast and another man. In the left foreground are a boy and a nurse-girl, with their backs to the spectator. Two children play with a goat. There are also five fowls and a brown dog. 13 inches by 24^ inches. A copy is in the collection of the Duke of Portland, Welbeck Abbey, 1894 catalogue, No. 235. Mentioned by Waagen (iii. 397). Engraved by Moyreau, 1741, No. 40, as "La Famille du Marechal " ; and by Beaumont, No. 7. In the Porlier collection, 1741. Sale. Sir M. W. Ridley, London, February 6, 1864 (W. Cox together with 450). Bought by Sm. from Cox with 450 in 1865, and sold to J. H. A. Poynder. In the collection of the Duke of Rutland, Belvoir Castle, No. 113. 118. HORSES IN FRONT OF THE SMITHY. In front of a smithy, which is in a cave on the right, the smith is shoeing a brown horse, held by a peasant. A boy hands up the tools. In the smithy are two men. In the centre foreground a grey horse is feeding out of a basket held by a woman. Above, on the rock, is the smith's cottage. His wife spreads the washing on a fence in front of it. To the left is a restricted view of a hilly background. Deep blue sky, with bluish-purple and grey clouds. A work of the master's middle period. Panel, 16 inches by 12 inches. Mentioned by Parthey (ii. 812) as a Pieter Wouwerman. Sale. Count SchOnborn of Pommersfelden, Paris, May 17, 1867, No. 141 ; in the 1857 catalogue, No. 250, it was attributed to Pieter Wou- werman. In the Kaiser Friedrich Museum, Berlin, 1906 catalogue, No. 900^. 119. SHOEING A HORSE IN FRONT OF A TENT. Sm. 102. In front of a tent to the right a smith is examining the near hind-hoof of a grey horse. The rider stands near, looking on. Behind them is a horseman facing the spectator. In the centre foreground, before