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 648 PAULUS POTTER SECT. springs forward. The head and shoulders of a young woman are seen on the right above a bank. Warm sunlight. Signed, and dated 1647 5 panel, 17 inches by 1 6 inches. Exhibited at Manchester, 1857, No. 1002. In the Eynard collection, Paris ; bought privately in 1826 by Sm. (for 7000 florins). Sale. Michael Zachary, London, 1838 (.351 :i5s., Bredel, who sold it before 1842 for _ 7 3 5). In the collection of Lieut.-Col. G. L. Holford, London. 136^. An Ass and Goats. Old and young goats. In a dune land- scape. A very fine picture. Sale. Cornelis van Dijck, The Hague, May 10, 1713 (Hoet, i. 162), No. 31 (60 florins). 136^. Rabbits, Rats, Butterflies. With other objects. In a landscape. Canvas, 16 inches by 22 inches. Sale. De V, Brussels, March 13, 1901, No. 43. 137. HORSES IN A FIELD. Sm. 84 ; W. u. On the left, upon rising ground in front of a gate, stands a dark bay horse with head erect ; it is seen from the back in a three-quarter view to the right. Behind it to the left, in front of trees in the middle distance, is a grey horse, seen in a three-quarter view with its head to the front. On the right is a view over flat pasture with cows, and the towers of Delft in the distance. [Possibly identical with 142*:. Pendant to 29 (Sm.).] Signed in full on the gate, and dated 1649 j panel, 9 inches by n inches. Etched by Potter himself (B. 10), and engraved by Aubertin. Sale. J. Goll van Franckenstein, Amsterdam, July I, 1833, No. 61 (2500 florins, De Vries). In the collection of A. Van der Hoop, Amsterdam, No. 90, in 1834 (Sm.) ; the collection was bequeathed to the town of Amsterdam in 1854, and has been exhibited on loan at the Rijksmuseum since 1885. In the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, 1911 catalogue, No. 1911. 138. A GREY HORSE IN A MEADOW. A grey horse, unbridled, stands in profile to the left with its head to the front, in the foreground of a flat pasture. In the middle distance cattle graze in a green meadow, bounded in the distance by a road lined with slender trees ; a waggon with three grey horses goes along the road from right to left. At the roadside are houses. In the yellow-grey misty distance is a town. The sky is partly overclouded. Signed in full on the right at foot, and dated 1653 > canvas, 62 inches by 79! inches. Described by Fr. Schlie, Zeitschrift fiir bildende Kumt, 1892, p. 260. Exhibited in the " Masterpieces of the Renaissance," Munich, 1901, No. 76. Sale. (Probably) Amsterdam, May u, 1/56, No. 13 (135 florins). In the collection of S. Winkler, Leipzig, 1768 catalogue, No. 147.