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 6oo PHILIPS WOUWERMAN SECT. woman who stands by his side with a basket on her arm. Near the group are an ox and a dog drinking at a tub. On the right are two boys ; one beats two fighting dogs. At the back is a woman with a child in her arms. Panel, 1 1 inches by 14 inches. Sales. Widow of A. de la Court van der Voort, born C. Backer, Leyden, September 8, 1766 (Terw. 551), No. 64 (345 florins, Van den Ende). 1042*7. Beggars in Front of a House. Panel, 18 inches by 21 inches. Sale. London, May 19, 1904, No. 46. 1042^. A Lady in an Interior. She sits at a table in a thoughtful attitude, with her head leaning on her left hand. In front of her are books and a mirror. At the side is a sleeping dog, with other accessories. Panel, 1 1 inches by 8 inches. Sale. W. van der Lely, Amsterdam, December 14, 1722, No. 13. 1043. THE FISHERMAN'S COTTAGE. Sm. 202 and Suppl. 73 ; M. 61. On a hill in the centre of a landscape is a clump of trees in front of a cottage. In the right foreground is an old stone bridge over a stream. A woman and child look down over the balustrade at a man fishing with a basket-net near the bridge on the farther bank ; a boy on the nearer bank also watches him. To the left are several figures and three horses. A group of gypsies are resting round a fire. A man on a grey horse rides away across the stream ; a boy leads his horse. Signed with the monogram ; canvas, 19 inches by 25 inches. Sm. notes in his own copy of his catalogue that there was a duplicate of the above the Farrer picture (360) named below. Sm. also notes (Suppl. 73) that the original of Moyreau's print was in the Hermitage, St. Petersburg, in 1842, but no such picture can be traced there now. Sedelmeyer in his catalogue refers only to Sm. 202, and the BrUhl and Marin collections there cited. The picture, once in his possession and now in America, was probably that of the Nieuwenhuys sale, and this in turn was probably identical with the Farrer picture. But the whereabouts of the picture alleged by Sm. to have been in the Hermitage are unknown. Engraved by Moyreau in 1748, No. 61, as "La Baraque de Pecheurs." In the collection of Count Bruhl, 1748. Sales. Marin, Paris, March 22, 1790 (lOOO francs). W. D. Farrer, London, 1858 (158 : us., Nieuwenhuys). Nieuwenhuys, London, 1886 (225 : 155., Wertheimer). In the possession of the Paris dealer C. Sedelmeyer, "Catalogue of 100 Paintings," 1896, No. 55. Now in America. 1044. A SANDY LANDSCAPE. Sm. 451. In the centre is a bare hill ; behind it are houses. To the right is a river valley j on the bank is a house with a signal-mast. In the left middle distance is a man in red on a grey horse. " Most admirably painted" (Sm.).