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 viii PHILIPS WOUWERMAN 411 519. A Stable. A boy rides on a goat. A woman fetches water. Sale. S. Wheeler, London, July 29, 1871 (116 : us., Crowes). 519*. Stable beside an Old Tower. On a bank is an old tower, against the left side of which is built an open stable. To the right is a view over a vaporous distance. In the stable, in a half-light, are a bay horse and a grey horse whose rider is about to saddle it. In front of the tower are two horsemen on a grey and a piebald, conversing with a third man who leads his horse out of the stable. To the right, farther back, two men are riding up the bank. Between them and the tower a third man on a grey horse rides up the bank ; beside him walks a man carrying a bundle on a stick over his shoulder. In the left foreground near the stable are heaps of straw and manure, with a cock and hens, a basket, and a horse's skull. On the tower is a dove-cot. Signed with the monogram ; panel, 17 inches by 22 inches. Sale. Carl Triepel, Munich, September 28, 1874, No. 8. 519^. Interior of a Stable. Cavaliers starting. Panel, I2| inches by i6| inches. Sale. Balthasar Schmidt, Berlin, June 20, 1891, No. 108. 519^. A Stable. Several persons starting for the chase. Copper, 1 8 inches by 24^ inches. Sale. Balthasar Schmidt, Berlin, June 20, 1891, No. in. 520. INTERIOR OF A STABLE. A cavalier in yellow and red on a bay horse at the open door. Behind him is a lady on a light bay horse. Farther back are grooms and dogs. A peasant, hat in hand, leads a saddled dun horse out of the stable. To the left are a man in red and two servants. Farther away are other horses and smaller animals. An especially fine picture of the master's best period, warm in tone but not dark. Panel, 15 inches by 20 inches. Sale. Lyne Stephens, London, May n, 1895, No. 351 (347, F. Murray). 521. A STABLE. With four horses. Three peasants sit on the ground, playing dice. In the court is a hay-cart with a figure. Signed on the left with the monogram ; io inches by 13^ inches. Said to have come from the Dresden Gallery. Sale. Foucart, Valenciennes, October 12, 1898, No. 157. 5210. A Stable. A rider on a grey horse, a peasant, a dog, and hens. Panel, n inches by 9 inches. Sale. Broadwood and others, London, March 25, 1899, No. 44. 521^. Interior of a Stable. With figures and horses. [Two pendants.] Panel, 13 inches by 13 inches. Sale. Milbank, London, July 7, 1900, No. 1 14.