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 59 g PHILIPS WOUWERMAN SECT. a man to keep him from joining in the fight. A little boy stands crying behind to the right. The road ascends slightly towards the back round the farm. Beyond are tents, and figures running forward. The ground falls away to the right. A horseman and a man leading his horse go away to the right ; another man is in front of them. An early work. Signed on the right at foot with the full monogram ; canvas, 26 inches by 35 inches. Sale. G. van der Pot, Rotterdam, June 6, 1808, No. 145 (600 florins, De Wit for the Amsterdam Museum). In the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, 1907 catalogue, No. 2707. 1037. FEEDING THE POOR AT THE CONVENT STEPS. Sm. 356 ; M. 66. To the left, on the steps within the courtyard of a convent, are charitable monks. One with a large ladle fills the first poor man's pan with soup. Near the steps to the left another monk saddles a grey horse which crops the grass. In the centre fore- ground a woman with a child in her arms stands beside a man with a basket on his back. In front to the left a little boy holds out his soup- plate to them. In the right middle distance is the open doorway, through which two monks come with a laden mule. Near them to the left a woman sits on the ground nursing her child. Behind her stands a man who looks at the monks. On the extreme right are some hens. In the wall is a window opening protected by a grating. Signed on the left at foot with the full monogram ; panel, 13 inches by 14 inches. Engraved by Moyreau, No. 66, as " La Charitd des Capucins." Then in the collection of the King of Poland, Elector of Saxony. Purchased for him in 1749 by Le Leu from Le Noir in Paris. In the Royal Picture Gallery, Dresden, 1905 catalogue, No. 1417 (Sm. valued it in 1829 at 262 : ios.). 1038. CHILDREN IN THE ROAD. A view of a road with children in a ring before a watch-house. The child in the centre dances ; around it are four others, one of whom, a girl, carries a little child in her arms. At the house door are a man, a woman, and a child. On the right a rat-catcher comes down the road. In front of him is a woman ; two children run beside him. The dark wall of the house fills more than half the width of the picture. The attribution to Wouwerman is beyond all doubt, although the subject would not seem to be one that he would paint. An example of the mature period. Panel, n inches by 9^ inches. In the collection of Earl Howe, Gopsall. 1039. A GIRL MILKING A GOAT. Sm. 397. Near an old tree a girl milks a goat. Another goat stands on its hind-legs cropping the leaves of a tree. A little kid lies between the two. [Pendant to 206.] Panel, 9 inches by 6 inches. Engraved by Martinasi as " La petite Fermiere." In the collection of La Live de Jully, Paris. In the collection of Comte Solviere, according to Art Sales.