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 xv ADRIAEN VAN DE VELDE 501 a dog. On the left lies the sleeping herdsman. Ranges of hills in the distance. Canvas, n inches by 13^ inches. Sale. J. C. Develey, Cologne, November 28, 1889, No. 90. 147. LANDSCAPE WITH A SHEPHERDESS AND A BAGPIPER. Sm. 12. In the centre foreground lie two cows. One is red with a white head ; the other rests its head on the back of the red cow. To the left lie a sheep and two lambs. Farther to the right stands a third cow, lowing ; on the extreme left lies a goat. On a hill in the left middle distance stands a cottage amid trees, surrounded by a fence. A herdsman, seen from the back in a three-quarter view, sits on the fence ; he has put down the mouthpiece of his bagpipes and looks round to the left where a woman sits in profile to the right at the foot of a tree. The same composition as 222 (Sm.). "Painted in the artist's most finished manner " (Sm.). Signed in full in the centre at foot ; canvas, 13! inches by 16 inches. Exhibited in the Royal Academy Winter Exhibition, London, 1876, No. 93. Sale. A. van Lennep, Amsterdam, July 24, 1792, No. 3 (500 florins, Fouquet). In the possession of Thomas Emmerson, London, 1829, from whom Sm. bought it (for 315). In the collection of Baron J. G. Verstolk van Soelen, The Hague, No. 46, in 1834 (Sm.) ; the collection was bought as a whole in 1846 by Thomas Baring, H. Mildmay, and Jones Loyd, afterwards Lord Overstone ; this picture fell to Mildmay. Sale. H. B. Mildmay, London, June 24, 1893, No. 76. 147*7. The Piping Herdsman. On the bank of a pool in front stands a monument with an urn upon it. Two cows. A herdsman play- ing the flute, and a seated girl. Two sheep. Panel, 8 inches by 10 inches. Sale. F. J. O. Boymans, Utrecht, August 31, 1811, No. D. 77. 148. The Piping Herdsman. Sm. 43, and Suppl. 7. A wooded landscape. In the centre is a fountain with a sculptured stone vase, at the foot of which sit a herdsman playing the flute and a woman leaning on his knee. A cow, a sheep, and two lambs browse near them. On a hill in the distance is a ruin. Signed in full, and dated 1671 ; panel, 10 inches by 13 inches. Sales. Coenraad Baron Droste, The Hague, July 21, 1734 (Hoet, i. 428), No. 95 (190 florins). Paris, 1773 (1850 francs). De Montribloud, Paris, February 9, 1784, No. 63 (2701 francs). Claude Tolozan, Paris, February 23, 1801 (2005 francs). In the collection of the Duchesse de Berry ; offered for sale in London, 1834 (p" ce d at 300 and not sold). Sale. Duchesse de Berry, Paris, April 4, 1837, No. 33 (4630 francs, De Magnancourt). In the collection of F. Heusch, London, 1854 (Waagen, ii. 254).