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 xvi PAULUS POTTER 655 of water ; his dog follows him. In the right distance are cattle at pasture. On the horizon are the towers of Delft. Signed in full on the chimney, and dated, according to the catalogue, 1641 (Sm. read the date as 1647, and Waagen as 1649; the latest date is most likely to be right) ; panel, 9 inches by 10 inches. Engraved by J. P. Le Bas, Couche, Chataigner, and Niquet in the Muse't Napoleon. A copy is in the Koblenz Museum, 1892 catalogue, No. 35. Sale. Peilhon, Paris, May 16, 1763 (480 francs) see Ch. Blanc, i. 115. In the Louvre, Paris, 1902 catalogue, No. 2526; it was there in 1816 (valued by the experts at 8000 francs). 156. BARN-YARD SCENE: HORSES WITH FIGURES. Sm. 87 ; W. 35. On the right is a thatched stable ; to the left, beside the open door is a tree. Inside the stable, in full light, are a grey horse at the manger with its head to the front, and a man at its side. In front of the left-hand side of the door stands a woman with a child at her breast. She turns her head to the left, where a man helps a boy to mount a dark bay horse standing in profile to the left. By the right-hand side of the door sits a dog scratching itself. Nearer the front are three hens and a cock. In the left middle distance are a fence and a little tree. Beyond stretches a pasture with numerous cattle. Cloudy sky with a brilliant burst of sunshine. [Pendant to 50 ; both "are of very excellent quality" (Sm.). Cf. 154.] Signed in full on the left at foot, and dated 1647 ; panel, 17 inches by 14! inches. Exhibited at the British Institution, London, 1815 ; at Manchester, 1857, No. 996 ; at the Royal Academy Winter Exhibition, London, 1881, No. 71 ; at the South Kensington Museum, 1891-98, No. 117; and at the Hudson- Fulton Celebration, Metropolitan Museum, New York, 1909, No. 72. A somewhat larger picture measuring 21 inches by 17 inches agreeing exactly with the above, occurred in the Sales. Pieter de Klok, Amsterdam, April 22, 1744, No. 67 (37 florins). Ph. van der Land, Amsterdam, May 22, 1776, No. 73 (81 florins, Wubbels). It was probably identical with the replica, dated 1647, on panel, 2o| inches by 17 inches, which Sm. saw and noted as apparently genuine, in the collection of Joseph Marsland, Manchester (who had paid about 315 for it), before 1834. Sale. Plettenberg, Amsterdam, April 2, 1738 (Hoet, i. 500), No. 66 (185 florins). In the collection of Willem Lormier (Hoet, ii. 435), who sold it on June 4, 1756, to J. W. Frank (for 600 florins). In the collection of Philip Henry Hope, London, 1834 (Sm.). In the collection of H. T. Hope, London, 1854 (Waagen). In the collection of Lord Francis Pelham Clinton Hope, Deepdene ; sold as a whole in 1898 to the London dealers P. and D. Colnaghi and A. Wertheimer. In the collection of Mrs. W. L. Elkins, Philadelphia. 157. A MAN OUTSIDE A STABLE (RUSTIC MAN- NERS). Sm. 72 ; W. 73. On the right is a thatched stable, open to