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 viii PHILIPS WOUWERMAN 341 Marquis de Montesquieu, Paris, December 9, 1788 (5000 francs, with pendant 887). And it was, he says, in the Six van Winter collection, Amsterdam, 1829. But no such picture is now in the Six collection, or can be traced as having been in it. Sale. Jan Gildemeester Jansz, Amsterdam, June n, 1800, No. 268 (1800 florins, Reyers). In the possession of the London dealer Brown, 1830, for sale (at j6oo). Sales. London, 1831 (^262 : IDS., bought in). Charles Norris, London, 1873. In the collection of Frau Adele von Carstanjen, Berlin. 293. TWO HORSEMEN CONVERSING WITH A GIRL AT A WELL. Sm. 308. A hilly landscape with a pool in front. Beside a well to the right stands a girl with a pail, conversing with a trumpeter on a bay horse, who has his back to the spectator. Beside him stands another horseman who has dismounted and holds his grey horse by the bridle ; he watches a white spaniel which is drinking. In the middle distance a peasant sits by the roadside. "A clear and finely painted picture" (Sm.). [Pendant to 425. Compare 296^7.] Signed ; panel, 16^ inches by 23^ inches. Mentioned by Waagen (ii. 343). In the Dulwich College Gallery, London, 1892 catalogue, No. 79; Sm. saw it there in 1829 (and valued it at 367 : ios.). 294. A Sportsman in an Inn -Yard jesting with a Girl. This picture agrees with 292 save in the following details. The two boys plucking grapes are absent. Behind the horseman with a hawk comes a young woman holding a bundle on her head with her left hand, and not a falconer [this accords with Sm.'s description of 292]. The cavalier with the girl has his left hand in his pocket ; his horse stands freely in the centre, facing right. Panel, 16 inches by 14 inches. In the Crochet collection, Lyons. In the possession of the Paris dealer F. Kleinberger. 295. A Hunting Party halting at an Inn; A Sportsman with a Girl at a Well. Sm. 473. A flight of stone steps leads to the inn door, at which a woman with a child in her arms takes an empty jug from a cavalier. Behind him is a fine prancing roan horse, whose rider has dismounted to caress a girl at a well. Nearer the door is a lady on a fine bay, nearly facing the spectator. Beyond are a baggage waggon and some travellers arriving. To the right are a woman drawing water at a well and two children, one of them riding a goat. " Although the figures and animals in this very capital picture are unusually large, yet the drawing is as correct and spirited, the finishing as exquisite, and the colour as finely enamelled, as in any of this artist's smaller works. It is signed and dated 1656 ; and as this and another (in which the figures and horses are equally large) are the only pictures that the writer has seen with a date " except two dated early pictures " it is probable that the artist considered them as the finest examples of