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 viir PHILIPS WOUWERMAN 315 manner, clear in tone and exquisite in the detail" (Sm.). [Compare i88f, d.} Canvas, 23 inches by 26 inches. Mentioned by Waagen (ii. 168). Exhibited at the Royal Academy Winter Exhibition, London, 1871, No. 21. In the Valkenburch collection (Sm.). Sale. Capello, Amsterdam, My 8, 1767, No. 80 (1400 florins or, according to Sm., 1075 florins). Purchased by Earl of Grosvenor, 1807, from William Ellis Agar (Sm., who valued it in 1829 at ^630). In the collection of the Duke of Westminster, 1888 catalogue, No. 23. 185. A HORSE FAIR. Sm. 289. A horse fair is being held in .front of an inn. A groom sits on a white horse which kicks out behind ; near it stands a young man with a whip. Two gentlemen, near whom is a boy with a dog, watch the horse. Farther away is another horseman. To the right, in front of the inn, stands a peasant with two horses ; other peasants sit round a table under a vine trellis. To the left sits a woman selling fruit, with a horseman and other people. In the distance is a village with a crowd in the street. Of the middle period. Signed with the monogram ; panel, 16 inches by 20^ inches. Sales. Widow of W. Valckenier, born Hooft, Amsterdam, August 31, 1796, No. 49 (1350 florins). Madame Le Rouge, Paris, April 27, 1818 (15,000 francs). In the Valedau collection, Paris, 1829 (Sm.). In the Montpellier Museum, Valedau bequest, 1890 catalogue, No. 802. 1 86. A Horse Fair. Near a village, people are merrymaking near tents under trees. In the foreground stand five horses and a foal ; two of them are greys. Two other horses are lying down. In the centre sits a peasant on a horse whose mouth another man is examining. Near a tent to the right are two persons of rank on horseback. To the left sits a peasant woman nursing a child, while her three older children play with a dog. From the distance comes a peasant with a load on his back. Above the houses rises a church-tower. Blue sky with grey clouds. Signed with the monogram ; canvas, 1 8^ inches by 24^ inches. In the collection of Jules Forges, Paris. 187. A PEASANT LEADING A GREY HORSE IN FRONT OF A CAVALIER. Four figures. Genuine but un- important. [Compare 92.] Panel, 9 inches by n inches. Mentioned by Parthey (ii. 805). Brought from Ludwigsburg in 1843 as the work of an unknown painter. Possibly identical with No. 1008, in the 1767 inventory of Ludwigsburg, ascribed to Querfurt. Eisenmann attributed it to Querfurt ; Bredius called it " a German pasticcio " ; Bode thought it a copy of a picture in the Liechtenstein Gallery, Vienna, probably No. 432 in the 1885 catalogue (92). In the Stuttgart Museum, 1907 catalogue, No. 285.