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viii PHILIPS WOUWERMAN 359 366. THE COLLISION. Sm. 430. To the right of a hilly landscape, at the foot of a tree-clad slope on which herdsmen are resting, a rider galloping from the left on a spirited piebald horse has frightened the horses of a country waggon containing two women, each with a child in her arms. In the centre a lady in yellow on a bay horse has halted. A woman with a milk-can and a peasant with a basket of eggs have both fallen down in trying to get out of the waggon. At the lady's side a beggar with a wooden leg asks for alms. In the left middle distance is a coach and four. In the left foreground is a river. Signed on the right at foot with the full monogram ; canvas, 22 inches by 31 inches. Engraved by Le Bas, when in the De Piles collection, Paris, 1739, as "Le Pot au Lait." A copy measuring 26 inches by 30 inches is in the possession of a Paris dealer. Another copy, ascribed to Pieter Wouwerman, is in the Karlsruhe Kunst- halle, 1894 catalogue, No. 323, measuring 28 inches by 34 inches ; mentioned as an original of Philips W. by Parthey (ii. 804). A third copy, on canvas, measuring 24 inches by 30 inches, was in the sale J. Bernard, Amsterdam, November 24, 1834, No. 172. It was acquired by Dresden through Rigaud from the De Piles collection, Paris, according to Hilbner. In Guarienti's inventory of the Dresden pictures (before 1753), No. 1695. In the Dresden Gallery, catalogue 1905, No. 1443.

366a. Travellers meeting. Sale. David Grenier, Middelburg, August 1 8, 1712 (Hoet, ii. 362), No. 83 (30 florins).

366b. Some Ladies and Gentlemen riding round a Milkmaid with a Barrow. [Pendant to 443a.] Sale. B. Cronenburg and others, Amsterdam, March 22, 1762, No. 35 (65 florins, with pendant, De Leth). 367. The Waggon stuck fast. Sm. 119. Several baggage- waggons pass along a road broken by a chasm near the sea. In the left foreground one has sunk in a hole in the road ; the driver tries to extricate it. [Identical with 368. Pendant to 602.] Panel, 14^ inches by 17^ inches, or the reverse. Mentioned by Ch. Blanc, Le Tresor de la Curiosite, i. 337-8, and ii. 472. Sale. Comtesse de Verrue, Paris, March 27, 1737. In the Mansard collection, Paris. Sales. Blondel de Gagny, December 10, 1776, No. 113 (6005 francs, with pendant). Destouches, Paris, March 21, 1794 (without pendant). Tolozan, Paris, 1801. Marquis de Montcalm, Paris, May 4, 1849 (£304 : 10s., Ellis according to Art Sales) ; or Paris, March 25, 1850 (8250 francs). London, 1856 (£357, Pennell).

368. Identical with 367.