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 vii AELBERT CUYP 65 188. COWS WITH A HERDSMAN. Five reddish - brown cows are in a flat landscape. A herdsman in red sits near, with his back to the spectator. The sky is clouded. Of the master's good period. Signed in full. In the collection of the Duke of Leinster, Carton, Ireland. 189. COWS AND HERDSMEN IN A LANDSCAPE. In the foreground are three cows and two herdsmen. At the back are horsemen. It is much over-cleaned but probably genuine. In the collection of the Duke of Leinster, Carton, Ireland. 190. CATTLE AND HERDSMEN. In a wooded landscape. Much damaged. Signed in the left-hand corner. In the collection of the Duke of Leinster, Carton, Ireland. 191. A Herdsman with Cows in a Pasture. A young man with a stick on his right shoulder stands, with his back to the spectator, under a tree on the left. Near him to the right stands a red ox (or young cow) with a white head, turned to the left but looking at the spectator. Behind it is a dark grey animal in profile to the right. In the immediate foreground lies a red and white spotted cow, looking to the right. Behind it is another dark grey cow, with its tail towards the spectator ; its left horn turns down, its right horn upwards. Panel, 16 inches by i inches. Sales. James Backer, London, 1855. G. A. F. Cavendish Bentinck, London, 1891. In the collection of Vernon Watney, Cornbury Park, Charlbury, Oxford- shire. 192. CATTLE: EVENING. On rising ground near a river-bank are eight cows, one of which is standing up. On the opposite bank are a town and other buildings. Blue sky with clouds. A good work of Cuyp's last period. Panel, 2i| inches by 30^ inches. Mentioned by C. Hofstede de Groot, Oud Holland, xi. 212. Exhibited at the Royal Academy Winter Exhibition, London, 1903, No. 80. In the collection of Arthur Sanderson, Edinburgh, 1903. Sale. Arthur Sanderson, London, July 3, 1908, No. 89 (89 : 53., Bryde). 193. A SHEPHERD AND HIS FLOCK. Sm. 141. A flock of sheep are seen in the light of the setting sun in a meadow. The grass is intersected by strips of sandy soil ; a few big stones are scattered about the foreground. The shepherd stands on the left, leaning on his crook and almost turning his back to the spectator ; his dog sits behind him. In the right middle distance is a thatched barn ; in front of it a donkey-driver, riding on the pack-saddle behind a tub, converses with a countryman. A broad plain stretches away to the horizon, the edge of which shimmers vaguely in the mist of the summer air. In the distance are fields and a river, on the farther side of which are two church towers. VOL. n F