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 vin PHILIPS WOUWERMAN 295 In the Kassel chief inventor}' of 1749, No. 538. In the Schloss Altstadt, Kassel, 1783 inventory, No. 29. At the Louvre, Paris, 1806-1815. In the Picture Gallery, Kassel, 1903 catalogue, No. 363 (old No. 336). 123. THE FARRIER'S SHOP. Outside a farrier's shop a horse is being shod. This appears to be a good picture, but hangs too high to be seen. Mentioned by Waagen (iii. 350). In the collection of the Duke of Devonshire, Chatsworth. 124. THE COUNTRY FARRIER. Sm. 515. To the left, in front of a farrier's tent, stands a white horse in profile to the right, with its rider in front of it. The farrier is shoeing the horse's off fore-foot. To the left, farther off, are a lady and gentleman on horseback ; the lady faces the spectator, the gentleman turns away. Near them to the left are two smiths at the anvil. The landscape rises from right to left ; in the right foreground a brook flows past an old gnarled tree. Signed in the left-hand bottom corner with the genuine monogram, side by side with a false monogram j canvas, 22 inches by 24 inches. Mentioned by Ch. Blanc, Le Tresor de la Curiosite, i. 61 ; and by Bode, in Von Zahn, vi. 206, who declares it a copy because of the false monogram. Sale. De Tugny and Crozat, Paris, June 1751 (604 francs). In the Royal Picture Gallery, Dresden, 1905 catalogue, No. 1420. 125. CAVALIERS IN FRONT OF THE HILL SMITHY. Sm. 17 and Suppl. 8 ; M. 21. In the left background is an old castle, built on brick arches and entered by a flight of stone steps. To the right is a forge in a vault cut out of the rock. In the centre foreground a horse is having its off hind-hoof shod. Its rider in a red coat stands by the anvil on the right, watching the smith making nail-holes in a horseshoe. To the left a rider on a grey horse has its near fore-foot examined. Farther back a party of travellers are resting by the roadside. Out of the distance a lady with a parasol comes riding on a grey horse. [Pendant to 713.] Signed in the left-hand bottom corner with the full monogram ; canvas, 21 inches by 26 inches. Engraved by Moyreau, No. 21, as "La Boutique du Marechal." Mentioned by Ch. Blanc, Le Tresor de la Curiosite 1, i. 7 or 8. Sales. Comtesse de Verrue, Paris, March 27, 1737, No. 79 (2502 francs, with pendant, De Lassay). Pictures from Saxony, Amsterdam, May 22, 1765 (Terw. 434), No. 97 (116 florins). In the collection of Prince de Rubempre, who sold it without the pendant in 1765 (Sm. ; but it is not in the sale catalogue). In the Royal Picture Gallery, Dresden, 1905 catalogue, No. 1426 ; it was there in 1829 (Sm.). 126. A CAVALIER BEFORE A SMITHY. Sm. 353 ; M. 59. On the right is a house on a rocky bank, against which is placed a ladder. Under it in a cave is a poor smithy, from which the farrier comes carrying a hammer and a horseshoe. A cavalier has dismounted and holds