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 390 PHILIPS WOUWERMAN SECT. 462*-. At the Inn. To the right a horseman and another man on a grey horse halt at an inn. The man on the grey takes a glass from the hostess. On the left a third rider crosses a brook in which there are bathers. Canvas, 18 inches by 23 inches. Sale. P. J. and B. van der Muelen of Coblenz, Amsterdam, August 22, 1850, No. 85. 463. In Front of the Inn. Two horses are drinking. A third, a grey, is led by a cavalier to be watered. Hilly landscape. Cloudy sky. Very broadly painted. Panel, 16 inches by 20 J inches. Salt. A. W. C. Baron Nagell van Ampsen, The Hague, September 5, 1851, No. 75 (350 florins, Van Heeckeren van Twickel). 464. Travellers halting at the Inn. A horseman drinks from a bottle handed him by a peasant woman with a child on her arm. He holds the bridle of the horse of his comrade, who rests on the ground. [Possibly identical with 4460.] Canvas on panel. Sale. Comte de Turenne, Paris, May 17, 1852, No. ill (600 francs, De Ter). 465. Halt of Travellers at an Inn (or, The Post-Waggon). Sm. 474. In the centre stands the post- waggon covered with a red tilt ; it is drawn by three horses, one of which, a grey, feeds out of a trough into which an ostler cuts black bread. A gentleman assists a lady to alight. A beggar-boy stands near asking an alms. Nearer the front a boy and a girl play with a goat. Farther right are a man on a prancing grey horse, another on a bay, and the fat host of the inn attending on them. Panel, 15 inches by 19 inches. Mentioned by Ch. Blanc, Le Trisor de la Curiosite", ii. 495. Sale. Amsterdam, June 26, 1799, No. 1 1 (720, I. Schmidt). Sm. says it was in the sale P. J. Hogguer, Amsterdam, August 18, 1817, No. 106. But the description of this picture (356) is quite different from that of the Morny picture, and the two cannot be identical. Probably it has been confused with the picture in the Jurriaans sale, Amsterdam, August 28, 1817, No. 78 (1500 florins, Josi). In the collection of Lord Charles Townshend, London, 1829 (Sm., who valued it at 315). Sale. Comte de M[orny], Paris, May 24, 1852, No. 34 (15,500 francs). 466. Horsemen at the Inn. A luggage-waggon. A horseman is mounting a grey horse. Sale. T. Capron, London, November 27, 1852 (122 : 175., Nieuwenhuys). 4660. Horsemen halting at an Inn. By Wouwerman or S. van Douw. Panel, i8| inches by 24^ inches. Sale. F. H. de Groof, Antwerp, March 20, 1854, No. 23.