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 318 PHILIPS WOUWERMAN SECT. 193. A Merrymaking and Horse Fair. Numerous persons on horseback or on foot. Tents and trees. Signed with the full monogram ; canvas, 21 inches by 29 inches. Sale. Antwerp, May 12, 1806, No. 10 (150 florins, Boy). 193*. A Horse Fair. Signed and dated 1638 ; 36 inches by 33 inches. Sale. Langston, London, 1809 (168). 194. The Little Horse Fair. Sm. 26; M. 33. A landscape with picturesque buildings in the middle distance. To the left is a pond, in which a man is watering two horses. The right side is filled with figures and horses. Three horses stand round a trough into which a man puts hay, while a fourth lies down in front. A cavalier is bargaining with a dealer for a grey horse standing near. " Of excellent quality " (Sm.). [Pendant to 821.] Panel, 14 inches by 18 inches. Engraved by Moyreau, No. 33, as " La Petite Foire aux Chevaux." A copy by B. Gaal was in the sale Rotterdam, April 25, 1817, No. 47 (150 florins, Durselen). In the collection of P. de Carignan, Paris, 1738. Sales. Marquis de Brunoy, Paris, December 2, 1776 (6600 francs, with pendant, Dubois). Beaujon, Paris, April 25, 1787 (4850 francs, with pendant). Coders, Paris, February 9, 1789 (2351 francs, alone). In the Louvre, Paris, 1829 (Sm.) ; valued by the experts, 1816 (6000 francs) ; but it cannot be identified with any picture now in the gallery. 195. A Horse Fair. Sm. 266. In a large public place. Sales. John Humble, London, April n, 1812 (.230, Mulgrave). Lord Mulgrave, London, May 12, 1832 (162 : 153.). 196. A Horse Fair. Sm. 227 and Suppl. 85. In the foreground are numerous horses. In the centre is a group of three ; one has a man on its back j the rider of the second, a piebald, stoops down under its head to tie his shoe. To the right are three children and a woman drawing wine from a cask. To the left are two children, and two horses at a trough. In the middle distance are groups of horse-dealers and others, near booths. " This little picture is rich in subject and painted in the artist's most esteemed manner" (Sm.). Copper, ii J inches by 14 inches. Exhibited at the British Institution, London, 1815. Sales. Sir S. Clarke, Bart., and G. Hibbert, London, May 14, 1802 (199:103.). George Hibbert, London, June 13, 1829 (278 : 55., Brown for Marquess of Ailesbury). In the collection of the Marquess of Ailesbury, 1842 (Sm.). 197. A Horse Fair. Sm. 286 and Suppl. 103. In the centre foreground of a busy scene is the chief group. A dealer with a whip and a cavalier are bargaining for a grey horse which a groom is showing off ;