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 300 PHILIPS WOUWERMAN SECT. 140. THE FARRIER. In the centre is a grey horse. [Cf. 287.] In the collection of E. de Rothschild, Paris. 141. HORSEMEN IN FRONT OF THE FARRIER'S SHOP. On a road in a hilly landscape, a horseman in a red cloak halts to have his horse shod at a farrier's shop,'at the base of a cliff. He has dismounted and looks at a little boy who sits near the forge rubbing his eyes that smart with the smoke. While the smith makes the shoe, one man holds the horse's bridle and another lifts its near hind-hoof. In the right foreground lies a dog. On the cliff at the back is a house. A peasant on an ass rides along the road, with a man and a woman, towards the farrier's. An early work. The varnish has perished, but the picture is still in good condition. In the left-hand bottom corner are faint traces of a monogram ; panel, 1 6 inches by i inches. From the collection of Count Brllhl, Dresden. In the Hermitage Palace, St. Petersburg, 1901 catalogue, No. 1012. 142. A GREY HORSE AT THE FARRIER'S. A work of the master's maturity. In the collection of Count OrlofF Davidoff, St. Petersburg. 142*7. A Farrier's Shop. Sale. Adriaen van Hoek, Amsterdam, April 7, 1706 (Hoet, i. 87), No. 8 (305 florins). i42/. Halting at the Farrier's. Sale. Cornelis Uitenbogaart, Amsterdam, April 3, 1711 (Hoet, i. 138), No. 3 (300 florins). 142^. A Farrier's Shop. A horse is being shod. Sale. Antony Grill, Amsterdam, April 14, 1728 (Hoet, i. 326), No. 20 (300 florins). 142^. A Farrier's Shop. Sale. Jan Smees, Amsterdam, April 6, 1729 (Hoet, ii. 386), No. 15 (86 florins). 142*. A Farrier's Tent. [Pendant to 232/1] 14^ inches by 17 inches. Sale. Johan van Schuylenburg, The Hague, September 20, 1735 (Hoet, i. 453), No. 76 (255 florins, Crans). 142/1 A Farrier. With various horses and figures. 17 inches by 15 inches. Sale. The Hague, April 24, 1737 (Terw. n), No. 2 (360 florins). 142^. A Farrier. Sale. Amsterdam, April 15, 1739 (Hoet, i. 576), No. 16 (28 florins). 142^. A Farrier's Shop. Sportsmen having their horses shod. [Pendant to 585^.]