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 vin PHILIPS WOUWERMAN 577 From Nuremberg. In the Aeltere Pinakothek, Munich, 1904 catalogue, No. 512. 980. SELLING FISH ON THE SHORE (or, View on the Coast). Sm. 503. On high ground to the extreme left is part of an old square tower. In front of it is a group of twelve persons. In front is a man on a grey horse, seen from the back, with a dog. He watches a woman spreading fish on the ground to the right. Two fishermen stand on the right. Two others lie on the left, farther back. Behind them comes a woman with a flat basket on her head and another basket on her right arm. To the left of the horseman sits a woman in profile to the right with a basket in front of her. Behind her are three other figures. On the right is a view down into a bay ; two horsemen with dogs, a coach and four horses, and figures are on the sands. There are boats on the sea. "Painted in the artist's first manner" (Sm.). Signed in the centre at foot, Ph. W. ; canvas, 21 inches by 32^ inches. In the collection of William Wells, of Redleaf, 1829 (Sm.). Sale. Wells of Redleaf, London, May 12, 1848 (71 : 8s.). In the collection of Oscar Huldschinsky, Berlin. In the possession of the Paris dealer C. Sedelmeyer, 1906. In the possession of the Paris dealer F. Kleinberger. 981. FISHERMEN ON THE SHORE. Two fishermen stand in the foreground near a horse with a knotted tail. A third fisherman, younger and taller than they, passes with a basket full of nets. On the sand lie fish. Two men sleep near a cart ; the horse has been unharnessed ; near it rest a group of fishermen with a white dog. On the dunes in the middle distance is a round tower. Two persons come from a neigh- bouring village. To the right is the sea with sailing-boats. A very fine and somewhat early picture, brown in tone. Signed to the left with the full monogram ; panel, 12 inches by 14 inches. Acquired by King Gustavus III. from the Sack collection, 1779. In the Stockholm National Museum, 1900 catalogue, No. 717. 982. A WOMAN SELLING FISH IN THE DUNES. In the right foreground of a rolling dune landscape a woman in a red jacket kneels behind the fish which she has spread on the ground. To the right, nearer the front, kneels a boy in a white shirt and blue breeches ; his back is to the spectator. To the right of it an old fisherman stands beside his bay horse, which hangs its head ; the man, who wears a fisherman's cap, looks back at the boy. In the centre is a reddish-brown dog. In a hollow in the left middle distance goes a coach with four horses. Beyond the dunes rise to a considerable height. On the extreme right, to the back, is a leafless pollard willow with a fence round it. Signed, to the right on the upper plank of the fence below the willow, with the earlier monogram, and dated 1661 ; canvas, 20 inches by 25! inches. Acquired by the dealers the brothers Bourgeois, in Cologne, October 1902. In the collection of the late Karl J. Trilbner, Strassburg. VOL. II 2 P