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 xvi PAULUS POTTER 637 Robert de St. Victor, Paris, November 26, 1822 (2700 francs, Nieuwenhuys). Sold by Nieuwenhuys to Thomas Emmerson (for 200). Sold by Sm. to Van Loon, who owned it in 1834 (Sm.). In the Van Loon collection, Amsterdam ; bought as a whole in 1878 by the Rothschilds, who gave this picture to the father of the present owner. In the collection of G. H. Tite, London. 112. HERDSMEN WITH THEIR CATTLE. W. 55. In the left foreground is a rough wooden shed, the thatched roof of which is supported by a pole passed through branches of trees. Seated on the trunk of a tree and leaning against the shed is a peasant dressed in a yellow jacket and grey breeches, bare-headed and bare-legged, holding up his ringer to a dog that " begs." Lying on the ground behind the log is another man, in a large straw hat and red coat, looking towards the first, in front of whom lies an iron-tipped staff. A sheep lies under the shed, and two other sheep, a horse, and two cows are in a wattled enclosure to the right. Beyond this are a few trees and a slope, down which a man with two hounds is coursing. The foreground is mostly in shadow ; ruddy evening light strikes on a bank of cloud and on a blue upper sky flecked with cloudlets. Signed in full, and dated 1648, on the highest plank in the wall of the shed ; panel, 14^ inches by i6| inches. Sales. Due de Caraman, Paris, May to, 1830. Frederic Kalkbrenner, Paris, January 14, 1850 (19,500 francs, Lord Hertford) see Ch. Blanc, ii. 470 ; at the sale some doubted its authenticity. In the collection of the Marquess of Hertford, London. In the Wallace Collection, London, 1910 catalogue, No. 189. [Translator's Note. Most probably the true history of this picture is given under 73, the description of which is virtually identical with the above. It seems unlikely that Lord Hertford would have bought the Van Brienen picture (73) in 1865 for more than double the price paid for the Kalkbrenner picture in 1850, if the Kalkbrenner picture was an original and not a copy.] 113. A HERDSMAN'S FAMILY WITH CATTLE. Sm. 4; W. 71. In the centre foreground a woman holds her little child in leading-strings to make her first steps. An elder brother stands in front to the left, with his back to the spectator, and holds out his left hand for his baby sister to grasp. A herdsman with a large felt hat stands on the left, behind the woman, and looks on. In the left and right corners of the foreground sheep are resting. On the right, farther back, is a cow with a white head ; it is seen almost in full face, with its head down. To the left lies another cow, with a sheep and a ram standing beside it. In the left middle distance a girl milks a black cow, seen from the back ; near it to the left stand a goat and a kid, In the left distance is a rolling landscape. To the right is a cottage with gnarled and almost leafless trees in front. Signed in full on the left upper corner, and dated 1646; panel, 14! inches by u| inches.