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 vm PHILIPS WOUWERMAN 323 centre of the picture, a grey horse, facing right, is being harnessed by a groom. To the right, with her back to the spectator, sits a woman with a child in her arms. Near her is a dog. This picture was formerly ascribed to Pieter Van Laer. Yet it is an early work by Wouwerman, in which indeed he based himself to some extent on Van Laer. A drawing in the Heseltine collection, which agrees in the main with this picture, bears the well-known monogram of the master's early period, thus confirming the attribution. Bode and Scheibler also regard it as an early example of Wouwerman. [Compare the very similar 217.] Panel, 21 inches by 15^ inches. Engraved in aquatint by C. A. Witzani. Mentioned in Guarienti's Dresden inventory (before 1753), No. 1589, as a " Pietro van Laar." In the Royal Picture Gallery, Dresden, 1905 catalogue, No. 1408*. 214. A Grey Horse, Saddled and Bridled. This has been over- cleaned. Panel, 9 inches by 8 inches. From the Abbey of St. Winoc. In the Dunkirk Museum, 1891 catalogue, No. 363. 215. A GREY HORSE. A man in red tries to lead a grey horse, which is in profile to the left, by the halter, across a wooden bridge over a ditch to a stable partly seen on the left. The man himself is on the road. Signed with the early monogram in red ; panel, 8 inches by 1 1 inches. In the Ekman collection, Finspong, Sweden, 1894 catalogue, No. 102. 2 1 6. The Grey Horse. Exhibited at The Hague, 1881, No. 314. In the collection of the Baronesses Schimmelpenninck, The Hague. 217. A Peasant with a Grey Horse. To the left near the centre a grey horse stands in profile to the right. A peasant standing behind puts the collar on it. To the left, farther back, are two dark thatched cottages. To the right, on a bank, sits a woman in a brownish-red jacket and white cap, with a child in her arms j near her on the right is a reddish- brown dog seen from the back. In the distance is a ship with white sails on the sea. Evening effect, but exaggerated. The same subject, with a few variations, is given in the Dresden picture (213), which is a little larger. Perhaps this is a copy of that. Panel, 17 inches by 14! inches. In the collection of Nicolaus Hudtwalker, Hamburg. In the collection of Johann Wesselhoeft, Hamburg. In the Kunsthalle, Hamburg, Wesselhoeft collection, 1889, p. 13. 2 1 8. An Unsaddled Grey Horse. A grey horse, with a bridle but no saddle, stands in front of a steep cliff, to the left of which is a view of a grey hill-top under a bright sky with light clouds. A man in a red cap kneels in front to tie up his left shoe.