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 viii PHILIPS WOUWERMAN 399 In the same collections as 487. In the Royal Picture Gallery, The Hague, 1907 catalogue, No. 215 (Sm. valued it in 1829 at 367 : ios.). 489. Stable with Horses. Fine light and shade. Mentioned by Waagen (iii. 310). In the collection of the Marquess of Linlithgow, Hopetoun House, Edin- burgh. 490. A STABLE- YARD. In the background of a large stable- yard horses stand at a manger ; a boy is about to give them water. Hens are picking here and there ; a little boy mounts a goat, his sister plays with a puppy, and their father, the ostler, receives his money at the door, where the wife sits. Some well-dressed huntsmen are preparing to leave. One man on a grey horse gallops towards the entrance, where another man throws a coin into a beggar's hat and looks round for his com- panions. A lady and a cavalier are ready to start. The falconer con- verses with the last of the party, who is not yet mounted. Signed with the monogram ; panel, 20^ inches by 29! inches. In the collection of Count Moltke, Copenhagen, 1885 catalogue, No. 89. 491. INTERIOR OF A STABLE. Sm. 171. A large shed with a wide entrance to the left, through which is seen the open country. A horseman leads his roan horse in by the bridle, followed by a lady on a dun horse who rides in. On the extreme left a maid-servant fills a pail at a well ; on a cross-beam above it sits a peacock. To the right, near the centre, is a grey horse with a rose-coloured velvet saddle and yellow housings, facing right and lifting its left fore-foot impatiently ; its rider stands behind it. To the left of it is a horseman in yellow on a bay horse, with its head turned away. Farther left a cavalier holds his dark- grey horse by the bridle while he pays the ostler. In front of him are two boys, one holding a dog, the other riding on a goat. Farther away a girl with a kid sits on the ground. In the right foreground are hens in front of other horses and grooms fetching fodder. An "excellent picture which is painted in the artist's most careful and elaborate manner " (Sm.). Signed with the full monogram ; canvas, i8| inches by 26^ inches. Mentioned by Ch. Blanc, Le Tresor de la Curiosite, ii. 93, and by Waagen (i. 408). Exhibited at the British Institution, London, 1818. Sales. Servad, Amsterdam, June 25, 1778, No. 121 (3300 florins, Fouquet). Comte de Merle, Paris, March i, 1784 (7900 francs, Le Rouge). G. Watson Taylor, London, June 13, 1823 (556 : ios., Emmerson). In the collection of Sir Robert Peel, 1829 (Sm.) ; purchased with the collection for the National Gallery, 1871. In the National Gallery, London, 1906 catalogue, No. 879. 4910. THE INN- YARD. A cavalier rides in the stable-yard from the left, followed by a lady on horseback. An ostler salutes him with a low bow. In the stable are a bay horse with a saddle and a whitish- brown horse without a saddle ; this second horse has been repainted. On