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 312 PHILIPS WOUWERMAN SECT. leafless willows. In the left middle distance is an angler j farther away is a sailing-boat. Signed on the right with the monogram ; canvas, 19 inches by 21 inches. Sale. Baron de Beurnonville, Paris, May 9, 1881, No. 562. 177^. Peasants with Cattle. At the foot of a rocky hill three peasants and a woman rest near their cattle. On the slope are a cottage and four horses. Signed with the monogram ; panel, 18 inches by 17 inches. Sale. Jos. Monchen and others, Amsterdam, April 30, 1907, No. 203 (380 florins). 178. A HORSE FAIR. Mentioned by Parthey (ii. 813). In the Schloss Luisium, near Dessau. 179. A HORSE-FAIR. Sm. 338 ; M. 37. Under trees on rising ground to the left stand horses for sale. In the foreground is a lively crowd of people and horses. A rider on a grey horse curvets to the right ; a rider with a red cap has taken a boy up behind him. A cavalier and lady look on at the grey. On the right two men examine a horse's mouth. In the foreground are two men, an old woman making pancakes, and two children looking on. In the right middle distance is a river with boats and bathers. Beyond it is a village with a church and the booths of a fair. Signed in the left-hand bottom corner with the full monogram in upright Roman lettering ; canvas, 24^ inches by 30^ inches. Engraved by Moyreau, No. 37, as " Les Maquignons a la Foire," 1739. In the collection of the Due d'Orleans, Paris, 1739. Htlbner wrongly states that it was bought in 1710 at Antwerp for the Dresden Gallery. It seems to be first mentioned in Guarienti's inventory (before 1753), No. 1676. In the Royal Picture Gallery, Dresden, 1905 catalogue, No. 1418. 1 80. A HORSE FAIR. Sm. 470; and Suppl. 225. An open place before a town which stands beside a river in the middle distance. In the centre foreground two mounted cavaliers look at a horse held by a man. Both are in profile to the right. The cavalier in front turns back towards a cavalier and a lady who stand behind him. Farther left are some children with drums and trumpets, and a little child in a goat-carriage, with the mother walking beside it. Behind them is a tree in front of a booth. In the middle distance are a cavalier and lady on a grey horse. Farther back is a crowd at the fair, thronging the booths. A performance is being given on a rough platform. In the immediate centre foreground a little boy runs with a white dog. To the right a man and woman are resting. Behind them is a watering-place for horses, with two bathers in the water and boats. Canvas, 27 inches by 32 inches. Mentioned by Waagen (ii. 18). Exhibited at the British Gallery, London, 1826-27.