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 6 32 PHILIPS WOUWERMAN SECT. 1136. A WINTER SCENE. Sm. 182. On a canal, under the walls of a town to the left, many children are skating and sliding. On the right a man feeds a saddled grey horse, standing in profile to the right. In the middle distance a road leads from right to left across a bridge to the town gate. The distant landscape is covered with snow. Signed with the monogram ; panel, 14 inches by 23^ inches. Sales. J. van der Linden van Slingeland, Dordrecht, August 22, 1785, No. 515 (510 florins, Delfos). King Maximilian of Bavaria, Munich, 1826 (bought in). In the Munro collection. In the Crews collection, London. In the possession of the Paris dealer C. Sedelmeyer, " Catalogue of loo Paintings," 1902, No. 50. In the collection of Dr. Paul Muller, Paris. 1137. A WINTER SCENE. Near a bridge. Four figures. A brown horse to the left. A very fine early work. Panel, 14 inches by 13 inches. In the collection of Sir Frederick Cook, Bart., Richmond, No. 214. 1138. A VILLAGE SMITHY IN A WINTER LAND- SCAPE. In the centre stand a grey horse facing right and a bay horse facing left. Both are unharnessed and are about to be fed. A man puts hay into a manger in front of them. In the foreground a watch-dog gnaws a bone. To the right behind a wall is a house with a smoking chimney ; at the side of it is a tree. Near the wall and behind it are four men ; four others are on the ice to the left near a boat that is frozen in. Others are in the distance. Signed on the right at foot with the full monogram ; panel, 14 inches by 1 6 inches. In the Schwerin Museum, 1882 catalogue, No. 1128. 1139. A WINTER LANDSCAPE. A well-equipped sleigh goes along a frozen canal with a cottage in the centre. The grey horse draw- ing it is led by a groom on the left, and is about to go up the bank to the left of the canal. Another sleigh with a dark horse comes down. On the ice in front a little boy pushes his little sister in a sledge. Another boy stands on the right. A fine picture, fresh in colour, but much over- cleaned ; it dates from the beginning of the mature period. Signed on the right with the full monogram ; panel, 14 inches by 17 inches. In the collection of K. G. Tessin, who bought it from Boucher in Paris (for 360 francs) and sent it to Stockholm in 1741. In the collection of Queen Louisa Ulrica of Sweden, and in that of King Gustavus III. In the Stockholm National Museum, 1900 catalogue, No. 709. 1139*. A Winter Landscape. Sale. Amsterdam, September 22, 1694 (Hoet, i. 18), No. i (64 florins 10).