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 5 6 2 PHILIPS WOUWERMAN SECT. Sales. Earl Granville, London, June 21, 1845 (390, Farrer). Casimir Perier, London, May 5, 1848 (346 : ios., Brown). Brown, London, May 1856 (288 : 155., Pearce) ; later bought by Pennell. (Probably) J. Gillott, London, April 19, 1872 (630, Lord Bective). Lord Bective, London, 1878 (372 : 153., Agnew). 931*. A Gypsy Encampment. In a cavern a gypsy family prepares for a journey. A man saddles a grey horse ; a woman with a child sits on another horse. Through the entrance is a view of a hilly landscape, in which is a woman with two boys. A dark picture. [Compare 928.] Panel, 15^ inches by 21 inches. Sales. F. Baars, C. Bennert, and others, Cologne, May 14, 1900, No. 139. Von Schauss Kempfenhausen, Cologne, April 29, 1901, No. 212. 932. A GYPSY ENCAMPMENT. Gypsies, men. and women, camp round a ruined hut in a landscape with cliffs to the right. Some drink at a stream in front. A rider has dismounted to water his horse. An early work, brown in tone. Signed, 18 inches by 24 inches. Sale. Brussels, January 21, 1903, No. 139. 933. THE BOHEMIANS. Sm. 203. In the left foreground is a man in brown on a chestnut horse, seen from the back. To the right of him is a grey horse, facing to the right in a three-quarter view, with a red saddle. Farther right again stands its rider in brown, facing the spectator ; a gypsy woman in a light-grey bodice and a blue-and-brown skirt holds his hands to tell his fortune. The woman carries an infant on her back and has a boy on her right and a dog on her left. To the right again two women with children sit facing the spectator. Behind them stand a woman, seen from the back, and three other figures. To the right of these a woman puts sticks on a fire over which hangs a pot. Other figures are seen beyond the fire and on a knoll on the extreme right. In the distance are hills. Blue sky with clouds. A work of the painter's maturity. Signed half-way to the left with the monogram ; panel, inches by 14 inches. Exhibited at the Royal Academy Winter Exhibition, London, 1902, No. 202 ; and at the Dutch Exhibition, Whitechapel Art Gallery, 1904, No. 302 lent in each case by Colnaghi. Sales. Marin, Paris, March 22, 1790 (800 francs). Claude Tolozan, Paris, February 23, 1801 (2000 francs). Comte Pourtales, London, May 19, 1826, No. 52 (105). In the collection of Martin Colnaghi, London, who bequeathed it to the National Gallery, 1908. In the National Gallery, London, No. 2282. 934. THE HAY-CART. Sm. Suppl. 142 ; M. 42. On the right is an old tower ; in the ruined courtyard wall is a wide archway.