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 xv ADRIAEN VAN DE VELDE 483 Engraved by H. F. von Laurin. In the Dresden inventory of 1722, No. A 406. In the Dresden Gallery, 1908 catalogue, No. 1655 (Sm. valued it in 1834 at ^262 : IDS.). 94. MILKING-TIME. In the left foreground of a meadow is an old pollard willow. Behind it is a rough fence or wind-screen, of three planks nailed on two uprights. In front is the corner of a pool. A sheep, with its head to the left, lies in front of the tree. Beside it, to the right, lies a yellowish cow with a white face, turned to the front. To the right of this, and a little way back, a reddish- brown cow stands in profile to the left, being milked by a woman who sits behind her to the right. The woman wears a black dress and a black hat, with a white kerchief and brown apron, and sits on a rough wooden chair. In the shadow behind the fence to the left lies another sheep. In the distance to left and right are cattle grazing. A grove of trees is in the left distance, and on the right horizon scattered poplars stand out against the sunset. Blue sky above. A fine picture. Apparently identical with 106, and a replica of 96. [Cf. 115.] Signed in full on a plank, and dated 1670; panel, 5^ inches by 7^ inches. Sale. (Probably) Vivant Denon, Paris, 1826 (Claussin) see Ch. Blanc, ii. 362., In the collection of Earl de Grey; purchased from him in 1844 by M'Lellan. In the collection of Archibald M'Lellan, Glasgow ; mentioned by Waagen (iii. 286) in 1854 ; bought with the collection as a whole by the city in May 1856. In the Glasgow Art Gallery, 1908 catalogue, No. 1034. 95. THE FARM COTTAGE. Sm. 90. On the left is a farm- house with gable ; a thatched wooden barn adjoins it on the right. A willow grows in front of the right corner of the barn, and behind it, in the centre of the middle distance, a tall dead tree overgrown with ivy stands out against the sky, with a bird's nest on the top of the left-hand branch. In the centre foreground, in front of the tree, a woman, with a white cap, kerchief and apron over a dark dress, sits, with her back to the spectator, milking a cow, whose head is turned to the front. She speaks to a man carrying a pail on his right arm, who stands to the left of her, facing the spectator. In the right foreground are four cows, in profile to the right ; two are standing, and two, partly hidden by the others, are lying down. In the left foreground, on a raised grassy bank, are two pigs and two hens, with a cock to the right at the foot of the bank, and another hen near the willow. A rough wooden fence runs round the corner of the barn past the dead tree to some bushes in the middle distance. To the right of the cows is a view of far-stretching pastures with dunes on the horizon. A fine afternoon. Light clouds in a great expanse of sky. " Finished throughout with elaborate care, and a scrupulous attention to the details of nature" (Sm.). Signed in full, and dated 1658 ; canvas, 20 inches by 24! inches.