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 628 PAULUS POTTER SECT. Edouard Kums, Antwerp, May 17, 1898, No. 124 (26,000 francs, Montaignac). In the collection of C. T. Yerkes, New York, 1904 catalogue, No. 100 catalogued as by an unknown painter. In the possession of the London dealers Dowdeswell. 92. Cattle in a Meadow : a Cow being Milked. Sm. 59 ; W. 29. Five cows. A woman in a red jacket milks one of them. There are also in front a calf, a goat, a ram, and four sheep. To the left is a farm, with a few clumps of slender trees. In the distance are other cattle at pasture. A fine afternoon. A " capital picture " (Sm.). Signed in full, and dated 1646 ; panel, 19^ inches by 24! inches. Exhibited at the British Institution, London, 1828. Not in the collection of J. van der Linden von Slingeland, Dordrecht, as Sm. states. Sales. (Probably) the dowager Madame Boreel, Amsterdam, September 23, 1814, No. 1 6 (2710 florins, Van Yperin). Lapeyriere, Paris, April 14, 1817 (17,230 francs) see Ch. Blanc, H. 33 2 - Alexis de la Haute, London, 1821 (798, bought in). Lapeyriere, Paris, April 19, 1825 (28,200 francs). In the collection of the Duke of Somerset, 1834 (Sm.) and 1854 (Waagen, 337)- Sale. Duke of Somerset, London, June 28, 1890 (6090). 93. THE MILKMAID. Sm. 35 ; W. ii. 10. In the centre lies a yellow cow with white spots, facing the spectator. Beside it to the right lies a sheep in profile to the right. Behind them stands a milkmaid carry- ing two milk-pails on a yoke. To the left stands a reddish cow, seen in a three-quarter view with its head to the front against the sky. To the left of it is an old and almost leafless tree. In the right background is a cottage with three slender trees in front. A very early and hard picture, recalling the early work at Niirnberg (i). [Compare 98*7.] Signed in full on the right at foot, and dated 1646 ; panel, 14^ inches by 19 inches. Sales. Gerard Braamcamp, Amsterdam, July 31, 1771, No. 171 (910 florins, Dirk Sens). J. Danser Nijman, Amsterdam, August 16, 1797, No. 207 (520 florins, Cremer). Thomas Theodor Cremer, Rotterdam, April 16, 1816, No. 95 (5100 florins). Jurriaans, Amsterdam, August 28, 1817, No. 47 (3800 florins, De Vries). G. Schimmelpenninck, Amsterdam, July 12, 1819, No. 90 (4125 florins, Van der Willigen). In the collection of Madame Hoofman, Haarlem, 1834 (Sm.). Sale. Hope, 1849 (804, Lord Hertford) according to M. H. Spielmann, The Wallace Collection, 1900, p. 105. In the collection of the Marquess of Hertford, London. In the Wallace Collection, London, 1910 catalogue, No. 219. 94. CATTLE IN A MEADOW: A COW BEING MILKED.