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 47 8 ADRIAEN VAN DE VELDE SECT. foreground holds a lamb under her right arm. The right half of the picture is an open landscape, closed in the distance by a range of hills ; in the open are cows, with a cottage to the left. Landscape by Wijnants. Signed in full on the left at foot, and dated 1662 ; panel, about 23 inches by 20 inches. Engraved by H. Adam in the Leuchtenberg catalogue of 1852, No. 169. In the Leuchtenberg collection, St. Petersburg, 1886 catalogue, No. no. 73. RUINS IN WATER WITH HERDSMEN AND SHEPHERDESSES. Sm. 151. On the left are the ruins of a convent, with water flowing round them. A woman followed by a dog, and preceded by a man driving a few sheep, another woman in a blue skirt, and a boy driving two oxen, ford the stream. The woman in blue speaks to a man lying on the ground. An attractive work. Panel, 14 inches by 17 inches. In the collection of Prince Liechtenstein, Vienna, 1885 catalogue, No. 583 ; it was there in 1834 (Sm., who valued it at .157 : IDS.). 73*. Cattle passing through a Stream. Sale. Guerin, The Hague, September 13, 1740 (Terw. 26), No. 6 (50 florins). 74. Cows, Sheep, Horses, and Figures at a Placid Stream. Sm. 3. A peasant with a long stick drives seven cows and some sheep through a shallow stream -flowing across the foreground. To the right is a rugged hill with clumps of trees. Hills and trees in the distance. Morning. Especially well rendered. [Pendant to 239^.] Dated 1666; canvas, 12 inches (Sm. says about 23 inches) by 26 inches. Sales. Jacob van Hoek, Amsterdam, April 12, 1719 (Hoet, i. 221), No. 2 (610 florins). Amsterdam, May n, 1756 (Terw. 137), No. 9 (1730 florins). 75. Landscape with Cattle and Herdsmen. A wooded land- scape, with a girl seated on an ass and two herdsmen driving cows, sheep, and goats through a stream. Canvas, 25^ inches by 31 inches. Sale. J. A. van Dam, Dordrecht, June I, 1829, No. 143 (100 florins, Hart). 750. [Identical with 69.] 75^. Wooded Landscape with Figures and Cattle in a Stream. Sale. Baron Rothschild, London, 1858 (47, Rippe). 75<r. Landscape with a Herdsman at a Ford. Sale. Lord Northwick, Thirlestane House, Cheltenham, July 26, i8co (42, Meffre). 76. Cattle passing a Ford. Hilly country with woods. In the right middle distance is a large round tower overgrown with foliage. In the foreground cattle pass a ford. A woman sits on a pack-mule.