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 vni PHILIPS WOUWERMAN 591 a grey horse in profile feeds from a sack. In the middle distance is a group of skaters. In the distance are cottages at the foot of snow-bound hills. Panel, 12 inches by i6| inches. Sale. Baron de Beurnonville, Paris, May 21, 1883, No. 113. 1016. Winter Landscape. A cottage and a church at the back. To the right among trees are woodcutters. An early work. 14^ inches by n inches. Sale. Mieville, London, April 29, 1899, No. 94 (94 : ios., Kleinberger). In the collection of T. Humphry Ward, London, 1900. 1017. A VILLAGE MERRYMAKING. In the centre a musician stands on a tub ; near him to the right is a cavalier. Farther back a young man tries to embrace a girl. In front a mother teaches her infant to walk. There are other groups. The picture is attributed in the catalogue to an unknown Dutch master, but is a genuine though ruined early Wouwerman. Canvas, 24^- inches by 34 inches. Bequeathed by Jean Jacques Emile Duboys to Angers, 1882. In the Angers Museum, 1887 supplement to catalogue, No. 825. 1018. A CAROUSE. In front of a house to the right numerous persons, mostly in rags, eat and drink. Others are on the steps of the house. Farther back is another house ; to the left is a view of a clear distance. In the left foreground a woman separates two boys who are fighting ; near them is a dog. In its subject, its composition, and even its types of character, this picture recalls Pieter van Laer. But the warm brown tone, the light and broad handling of the colour which in the shadows show the ground through it, and the clever treatment of the scene, betray a greater talent than that of Pieter van Laer. Signed on the right at foot with the early monogram ; panel, 20 inches by 24 inches. Purchased in London, 1891. In the collection of the late Alfred Thieme, Leipzig, Bode's 1900 catalogue, No. 89. 1019. A VILLAGE FESTIVAL. Sm. 87. A landscape with a river in the middle and a little inn to the right ; there is a pigeon-cote in a tree beyond the inn. In the right foreground, before the inn, a hunting party of two cavaliers and a lady on horseback have halted. The host offers the lady a glass of wine. In front a boy kneels to couple two dogs. To the left is another inn, in front of which peasants are making merry. A couple dance to the music of a hurdy-gurdy played by a man on a tub under a tree. Others drink and lie on the ground. In the centre a party of five, with a piper at their head, advance towards the lady and gentlemen. At the back, on the farther side of the river, is a village with a blue distance beyond. "An excellent picture, painted in the artist's second manner ; full of variety and interesting detail " (Sm.). Signed with the full monogram ; canvas, 20 inches by 34 inches.