Page:Hofstede de Groot catalogue raisonné, Volume 2, 1909.djvu/418

 402 PHILIPS WOUWERMAN SECT. boy riding a goat which another boy drives. In front of him is a girl on a hobby-horse. Beyond these, a cavalier on a grey horse rides out of the stable. A cavalier, bare-headed, adjusts the bridle of a restive horse. A man pushes back one of the stable doors ; near him is a woman at a well. The other four horses are at a manger in the background. Panel, 14^ inches by i8 inches. Engraved by Moyreau, No. 34, as " L'Ecurie Hollandoise " ; and by Filhoeul. According to the catalogue, this was in the collection of the Prince de Carignan (see 496). In the Louvre, Paris, 1903 catalogue, No. 2627 (it was there in 1816, and valued at 6000 francs). 498. Three Horses in a Shed. A grey horse, a chestnut, and a bay which is saddled and held by a boy. At the door are a cavalier and a lady on horseback to whom the boy takes off his hat. Behind the chestnut horse stands an ostler. On the right are a man in a scarlet cloak with his back to the spectator, and a small boy. To the left is a little black dog ; to the right are three hens and stable utensils. Through the open door is seen foliage. Canvas, 14^ inches by i8 inches. In the Boniakowsky collection, Warsaw, 1903. In the possession of the Paris dealer F. Kleinberger. 499. THE INTERIOR OF AN INN STABLE. Sm. Suppl. 27. In a large stable, the doors of which open to the left on a hilly landscape, two huntsmen are preparing to depart. One cavalier, in a grey cloak and a plumed hat, on a grey horse, pays the ostler who stands, cap in hand, at the door. The other sits on a sack of oats, pulling up his boots ; a page holds his horse. To the right two ostlers are tending five horses. Another ostler, with basket in hand, climbs a ladder up to a loft filled with trusses of hay. To the left are a stable-boy and two horses. In the foreground are a dog lying down, and a cock and two hens on a manure-heap ; to the right a boy swims a boat in a tub near the well. Panel, 16 inches by 23 inches. From the collection of Count Brllhl. In the Hermitage Palace, St. Petersburg, 1901 catalogue, No. 1000. 500. THE INTERIOR OF AN INN STABLE. Sm. Suppl. 21. A large barn-like shed, with a wide-open entrance-door to the left, through which are seen a stone building and a hilly distant landscape. Three horsemen are preparing to depart. One, assisted by the ostler, swings himself into the saddle of his brown horse. The second, to the right, is already mounted on his grey horse. In the foreground a little boy is playing at horses and has a whip. Farther away stands the third horseman with a page and a groom. At the back, near a manger full of hay, two ostlers are tending three horses. Farther right a she- goat lies on the hay. In front two boys play with a dog. The picture is not bad in its way ; it resembles the picture at The Hague (488).