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 608 PHILIPS WOUWERMAN SECT. foreground, where it is crossed by a plank bridge over which a man passes. In the centre, on the farther bank, two riders water their horses ; one has dismounted ; the other sits on his grey horse. To the right at the foot of a sand-hill, sits a woman with a child in her arms and another at her side. To the left of the centre are two bathers on the nearer bank. In the middle distance are other figures. In the centre are two slender trees ; beyond them are houses with hills in the distance. A fine cloudy sky. Light in tone, and of the mature period. Panel, 26 inches by 22| inches. Mentioned by Buchanan, Memoirs of Painting, ii. 346 ; by Waagen (Suppl. 89) ; and by Ch. Blanc, Le Tresor de la Curiosite", i. 195. Engraved by Dunker in the Choiseul Gallery, No. 29. Sales. Due de Choiseul, Paris, 1772 (3000 francs). Due de Choiseul, Paris, 1777 (5000 francs). Prince de Conti, Paris, March 15, 1779 (3280 francs). Calonne, Paris, April 21, 1788 (3900 francs). Marquis de Montesquieu, Paris, December 9, 1788 (4021 francs). Sabatier, Paris, March 20, 1809 (2400 francs). Villiers, Paris, March 30, 1 812 (5000 francs). Prince de Talleyrand, Paris, July 7, 1817, No. 45 ; the collection was sold privately as a whole to W. Buchanan, the London dealer. In the collection of Edward Gray, London, 1829 (Sm., who gave its value as 630). Sale. Casimir Perier, London, May 5, 1848 (409 : ios., Marquess of Hertford). In the collection of the Marquess of Hertford, London, 1857 (Waagen). In the Wallace Collection, London, 1901, No. 218. 1078. LANDSCAPE. With two horses crossing a stream. A somewhat dark but decidedly good picture of the end of the middle period. Signed on the left at foot with the monogram ; panel, 14 inches by 16 inches. Mentioned by Parthey (ii. 808). Acquired in 1818 from Count Sicking's collection, Vienna. In the collection of Freiherr Speck von Sternburg, Lutzschena, 1889 catalogue, No. 220. 1079. LANDSCAPE. Sm. 302. A rider has dismounted from his grey horse on the right in front of a bridge crossing a stream which flows in a cascade towards the front. A peasant with a dog crosses the bridge. Another horseman comes from the other side. On the left is an open landscape rising towards the back, with a shepherd and sheep. Signed on the right at foot with the early monogram ; panel, 10 inches by 8^ inches. Sale. King Maximilian of Bavaria, Munich, December 5, 1826, No. 79 (902 florins). In the Aeltere Pinakothek, Munich, 1904 catalogue, No. 497. 1080. LANDSCAPE. With a road in front. A very fine cloud in the sky. In the collection of Baron Alphonse de Rothschild, Paris.