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 viii PHILIPS WOUWERMAN 527 Tents are pitched in an open plain near a village. To the left is a sandy road, enlivened with horsemen, horses, and people right away into the distance. In a river to the right are people in boats, a grey horse drinking, and two boys wading. In the centre foreground a man on a grey horse speaks to a man in a red cloak standing beside a bay horse. Signed on the left at foot with the full monogram ; panel, 12 J inches by 1 6 inches. In the Dresden inventory of 1722, A 401. In the Royal Picture Gallery, Dresden, 1905 catalogue, No. 1419 (Sm. valued it in 1842 at .300). 838. A CAMP BY A RIVER. Sm. 15; M. 19. To the left is a river with many vessels at the foot of a steep fortified hill. A camp spreads to this hill and fills also the foreground on the nearer side of the river. Here is a crowd of horsemen and foot-soldiers. Two men ride their horses into the river. A horse kicking out knocks a boy down. To the right are a man on a grey horse in profile to the left, and a group of drummers playing dice. Farther back on a low hill are trees ; to the right is part of an old church, cut off by the frame. In the distance is the river-valley. A " very capital picture " (Sm.). [Pendant to 620.] Signed on the right at foot with the full monogram ; canvas, 28^ inches by 51 inches. Mentioned by Ch. Blanc, Le Tresor de la Curiosite, i. 3. Engraved by Moyreau, No. 19, as " Quartier- General de I'Armee Hollandoise." Sale. Comtesse de Verrue, Paris, March 27, 1737, probably No. 24 (5036 francs, with pendant). Purchased from the Carignan collection, Paris, by De Brais, 1743, for Dresden see note to 620. In Guarienti's inventory (before 1753), No. 1568. In the Royal Picture Gallery, Dresden, 1905 catalogue, No. 1450 (Sm. valued it in 1829 at 1050). 839. A CAMP. In the Schloss, Woerlitz, in the so-called concert-room, 1883 catalogue, No. 1027. 839*7. Tents with Horsemen. Sale. Amsterdam, March 6, 1708 (Hoet, i. in), No. 12 (205 florins). 839^. An Encampment with Cavalry. Sm. 59. Panel, 13! inches by 15 inches. In the collection of Willem Lormier, The Hague, 1752 (Hoet, ii. 447); in his store-room catalogue of December 1754, No. 344; he had bought it from Jan Block of Ghent (for 475 florins). Sale. Willem Lormier, The Hague, July 4, 1763, No. 330 (1000 florins). 839*:. A Camp. With horses and figures. Sale. Leyden, June 15, 1764 (Terw. 369), No. 3 (405 florins).