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 vii AELBERT CUYP 67 Mentioned by Waagen (iii. 310). Exhibited at the Royal Academy Winter Exhibition, London, 1903, No. 96. In the collection of the Marquess of Linlithgow, Hopetoun House, Scotland. 198. COWS IN A PASTURE. Sm. 122. In the foreground are four cows. A yellow and a red one are lying down ; the other two stand up on the farther side of them. Beyond are the herdsman and a few sheep. Farther back, near the centre, a shepherd and shepherdess are sitting together. On the left is a distant view. It is a fine sunny evening. The picture is golden in tone. Signed in full ; octagonal panel, 8 inches by 9^ inches. Engraved by Page. Possibly identical with the octagonal picture which the surgeon Jacob Houcke sold in Leyden, 1669, with other pictures (A. Bredius). Sales. C. A. de Calonne, March 23, 1795 [or 1788, according to Sm.] General Craig, London, April 18, 1812 51 : 93.). G. Watson Taylor, London, June 13, 1823 (81). G. Watson Taylor, Erlestoke, 1832 (134 : 8s.). Richard Sanderson, London, June 17, 1848 (117: I2s., Seguier) it was in this collection in 1834 (Sm.). In the possession of the Paris dealer Bourgeois. In the collection of Baron Albert von Oppenheim, Cologne. 199. A RIVER LANDSCAPE WITH COWS. On a river- bank to the right are four cows, near some bushes. In the distance are the towers and houses of a town. Signed, A. Cuyp ; canvas, 20 inches by 25 1 inches. In the collection of Antoine Brasseur. In the Lille Museum, A. Brasseur bequest of 1885 ; 1893 catalogue, No. 215. 200. COWS IN A PASTURE NEAR THE WATER. Sm. 242. Near a clear stream are four cows ; a black and white cow and another one lie down, and two others stand up. (Waagen says that three, not two, are lying down.) Near them a man and woman are seated on a bank. A line of trees, among which is seen the roof of a house, leads the eye to the ruins of a castle ; near it, some cows stand in a river which fills the left side of the picture. In the foreground are ducks. A pail and a large bottle are placed on a wooden bridge. Canvas, 37 inches by 52^ inches. Mentioned by Waagen (ii. 20). Exhibited at the British Institution, London, 1826 and 1827. In the Royal collection, Buckingham Palace, where it was in 1834(8111.). 201. COWS IN A PASTURE BY A RIVER. Sm. 73. On a bank in deep shadow in the foreground are eight cows, seven of them lying down. Near them is a peasant in a red jacket, who leans on a stick and talks to a woman seated, with a little girl standing by her. In the