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 vin PHILIPS WOUWERMAN 371 404. PEASANTS HALTING ON THE ROAD. In the left foreground are two leafless trees near a hedge ; beneath them sits a woman playing with her child. In front of her, in the centre, stands a man, seen from the back, beside a cart with a grey horse facing left. In the distance are some cottages in open country. A good picture. Signed with the full monogram ; panel, 12 inches by 14 inches. Presented by Collot or acquired from his endowment. In the Montpellier Museum, 1890 catalogue, No. 799. 405. PEASANTS RESTING. A peasant family, with a woman soothing her child, and a dog, are resting near a grey horse. Signed on the right at foot with the early monogram j panel, 13 inches by Q| inches. From the Zweibrticken Gallery. In the Aeltere Pinakothek, Munich, 1904 catalogue, No. 510. 406. A CARRIER HALTING. To the right a man unloads packages from a waggon. The horses, a grey and a bay, have been unharnessed and stand near. To the left near the wall of a cottage built amidst ruins, a woman with a child sits on the ground near an ass that is lying down. In the middle distance a wooden bridge connects the ruin with a rock. Two women are drying linen on the bridge. In the distance are a castle and hills. A weak and uninteresting picture. Signed on the left at foot with the full monogram ; panel, 14 inches by i6| inches. In the collection of Count Brtlhl. In the Hermitage Palace, St. Petersburg, 1901 catalogue, No. 1010. 406*7. A Country Waggon. Sale. Isaak van den Blooken, Amsterdam, May n, 1707 (Hoet, i. 101), No. 46 (135 florins). 406^. Three Horses with Peasants resting. 14 inches by i6 inches. Sale. Van Wassenaar Obdam, The Hague, August 19, 1750 (Hoet, ii. 291), No. 24 (527 florins). 407. Peasants with a Waggon resting on the Shore at Scheveningen. A waggon in which is a woman with a child. Near it are two horses, one of them a grey. Farther off are a man with a whip, a child and other accessories. [Pendant to 876^.] Panel, n inches by 15 inches. Mentioned by Ch. Blanc, Le Tre'sor de la Curiosite", ii. 43. Sale. Due de Lavalliere, Paris, February 21, 1781 (4101 francs, with pendant). 4070. Peasants resting. A loaded waggon, in which is a woman nursing a child. A peasant has unharnessed the grey horse and gives it fodder. By or after Wouwerman. Canvas, 18 inches by 15^ inches. Sale. J. van der Maas and the widow P. van Spijk, Amsterdam, June 30, 1783, No. 8 1 (17 florins, Kaerten).