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 xv ADRIAEN VAN DE VELDE 479 Signed with the monogram on the left at foot, and dated 1670 ; panel, 15^ inches by 13 inches. Sale. Stiels and others, Cologne, May 24, 1897, No. 302. 77. LANDSCAPE WITH CATTLE CROSSING A STREAM. Sm. 24. On a knoll to the left is a clump of trees. In front flows a stream, which two cows and a kid are crossing. Beyond the water to the right a bare-legged herdsman sits at the foot of a tree, conversing with a woman on a bay horse. On a bank farther away are three sheep and a goat. In the distance are blue hills. "A beautiful example " (Sm.). Signed in full, and dated 1667 ; canvas, n inches by 15 inches. Exhibited at the Royal Academy Winter Exhibition, London, 1882, No. 230. Sales. Paris, 1773 (1002 francs). Blondel de Gagny, Paris, December 10, 1776 (1001 francs). Paris, 1781 (1205 francs). De Clesne, Paris, December 4, 1786 (1801 francs). In the collection of Butt, Salisbury, who died before 1834 (Sm.). In the collection of General Buckley, Newhall, 1857 (Waagen, Suppl. 363). Sale. A. Buckley and others, London, May 4, 1901, No. 43. 78. Landscape with a Ford. In the foreground of an Italian landscape are a horse and waggon driven by a peasant. A herdsman drives a cow and sheep forward through a little stream. Signed in full on the ground to the left ; panel, 13 inches by 17 inches. Sale. Brussels, May 2, 1905, No. 99. 79. THE HUT. Sm. 15. On the left is a low thatched hut, with a half-withered tree to the left in front of the half-opened door. At the door sits a woman in a yellow jacket and a blue skirt, holding a basket from which she takes fodder for some goats near her. To the right of her is a herdsman on a grey horse, seen from the back ; he carries a basket on his right arm. Beside him, to the right, are cows. In the left fore- ground are cows and sheep. Beyond the hut are wooded hills. Waagen thinks that in this work the delicacy of the execution is carried to an affected degree, and that the background is hard. Sm., however, speaks of it as a " very capital and admirably finished picture " an opinion in which Bredius concurs, praising the acute observation, the loving treatment of every portion of the figures, and the completeness of the rendering down to the smallest details. 85 is perhaps a copy or replica. Signed in full on the left at foot, and dated 1671 ; canvas, 30 inches by 25^ inches. Not in the Braamcamp (1771) and Gildemeester (1800) sales as Sm. and the Rijksmuseum catalogue state. Sales. E. Hooft, widow of W. Valckenier, Amsterdam, August 31, 1796, No. 39 (4020 florins according to Sm.). J. A. Brentano, Amsterdam, May 13, 1822, No. 344 (829 florins or 8290 florins, according to Sm. De Vries). In the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, 1908 catalogue, No. 2448 ; it was there in 1834 (Sm.).