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 604 PAULUS POTTER SECT. Signed in full on the right, and dated 1650; panel, 12 inches by 16 inches. Saks. Adriaen Pacts, Rotterdam, April 26, 1713, No. 40 (215 florins). Gaignat, Paris, December 1768 (1351 francs). Randon de Boisset, Paris, December 3, 1777, No. 115 (1300 francs). Comte de Merle, Paris, March i, 1784 (2680 francs) see Ch. Blanc, ii. 94. Aubert, Paris, March 2, 1786 (4300 francs). Le Brim, Paris, 1791 (4301 francs, Grandpre) see Ch. Blanc, ii. 134. In the collection of Count KouchelefF Besborodko, St. Petersburg, 1 842 (Sm.). Sale. Countess KouchelefF Besborodko, Paris, June 5, 1869, No. 25 (49,500 francs, bought in). 37. A COW AND TWO OXEN BUTTING EACH OTHER. Sm. 60 ; W. 47. One ox is white ; the other is yellow with white spots. The cow lies near a tree on the right. Not far from it are trees round a thatched cottage. In the distance is a tower (of Haarlem ?). [Similar to 36.] "A free and masterly little picture" (Sm.). Signed in full, and dated 1653 ; panel, ii inches by 13 inches. Sale. Van der Wynne Garde (? Wijngaarde), London, 1822 (.420). In the collection of Alexander Baring, London, 1834 (Sm.). In the collection of Lord Ashburton, The Grange, 1854 (Waagen, ii. 108); sold as a whole in 1907 to the London dealers Agnew and others. 38. FOUR COWS IN A FIELD. W. 10. These cows are standing ; the middle one is white, the others are grey and brown respectively. The fourth, a light brown cow, is lying down. Dark rain- clouds in the sky. Signed in full on the left at foot, and dated 1651 ; panel, 10 inches by 12 inches. Wrongly identified with 29 by Burger, Musees de la Hollande, vol. ii. Sales. J. Bernard, Amsterdam, November 24, 1834, No. 118 (300 florins, Roos). (Possibly) P. van Romondt, Amsterdam, May n, 1835, No. 119 (40 florins, Roos). J. Clemans, 1851. In the Van der Hoop collection, Amsterdam, No. 91. The collection was bequeathed to the city of Amsterdam in 1854, an ^ ^ ent to t ^ ie Rijksmuseum in 1885. In the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, 1910 catalogue, No. 1913. 39. FOUR CATTLE IN A MEADOW. Sm. 82 ; W. 85. On the right, in front of a leafless little oak on which birds are perched, a young brown and white spotted bull stands turned to the left with its head towards the spectator. In front of him to the left lies a white cow. Beside her, to the left, a cow, seen from the back, is grazing. Behind the young bull stands a black bull, whose form is almost entirely hidden by the animal in front. On the ground in the centre is a frog. Signed in full twice over on the left at foot, and dated 1644 the lower signature is half hidden by the frame ; panel, 15^ inches by 14 inches. ,