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 xvi PAULUS POTTER 633 iO2a. A Milking Scene. In front is a group of cows ; one is being milked by a girl. Two boys. To the left is a landscape in evening light. Signed in full ; panel, 34 inches by 53^ inches. Exhibited at the Royal Academy Winter Exhibition, London, 1882, No. 1 1 8. Then in the collection of St. A. H. Molesworth St. Aubin, London. 103. CATTLE IN A MEADOW; A COW BEING MILKED. Sm. 97 ; W. 48. In front are six cows, a red bull, a lamb, and a sheep. Nearest to the spectator are the bull, a lamb, and a sheep lying down. Farther back lie a red cow, a white cow, and a yellow cow. At the side stands a brown cow, with a dark cow which is being milked. A yellowish-red cow stands on the left. Beyond a row of willows is a cart with two horses, carrying four persons. A summer evening. Very warm light. The cottage, the row of willows, and the fence also occur in 94 (Duke of Westminster). Signed in full, and dated 1652 ; panel, 15 inches by 18 inches. In the collection of Count Fries, Vienna (who is said to have paid 30,000 francs for it, Sm.). In the collection of Baron Puthon, Vienna; brought to England in 1825 and sold (for ^840). In the collection of Alexander Baring, London, 1834 (Sm.). In the collection of Lord Ashburton, The Grange ; sold as a whole in 1907. In the collection of the late M. Bischofsheim, Paris. 104. Seven Sheep and a Cow in a Meadow. Sm. 99 ; W. ii. 28. In the foreground lie seven sheep and a cow. Beyond them stands a cow, in profile, with its head turned away ; beyond is a sheep. In the middle distance are four cows ; one of them is being milked by a woman, while a man stands by. Beyond some bushes and two slender trees is a herd boy in front of a barn. In the distance is a line of trees, above which rise the roofs of houses and a town. Panel, 13 inches by 16 inches. Described by Sm. from an engraving by Couche. 105. SIX COWS BEING DRIVEN ALONG. Sm. 90 ; W. 77. The herdsman, facing left, walks in the right foreground in front of an old willow, following six cows. The cow in the centre foreground, in profile to the left, is white. The cows go towards the left distance, where the ground rises to a light sandhill. In the middle distance a horse and cart go away. To the right is a farm amid trees. In the distance is a church tower. Sunset. The herdsman is the same model as in the "Young Bull" (48) ; compare also 47, 97. [Pendant to 74,] Signed in full on the left at foot, and dated 1652 ; panel, 14 inches by 19^ inches. A somewhat larger replica or copy, on canvas, signed and dated 1645, was in the sale : G. C. Melly, Leipzig, May 10, 1861, No. 134. In the Dresden inventory of 1722, No. A. 278. In the Dresden Gallery, 1908 catalogue, No. 1629 (Sm. valued it in 1834 at 525)-