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no AELBERT CUYP SECT. Signed and dated, "A. Cuyp fecit. 1639."; panel, 14^ inches by i6| inches. Acquired in 1840 (for 200 francs). In the Besan9on Museum, 1886 catalogue, No. in. 363. A COW BEING MILKED. Sm. 179, and Suppl. 26. A red cow stands in the foreground of a hilly landscape, being milked by a woman in a red bodice with white sleeves and a blue apron. On the other side are three other cows, two of which are lying down. Evening. Panel, 15 inches by 19^ inches. Mentioned by Waagen (iii. 163). Sale. Michael Zachary, London, 1838 (178 : ios., Lord Lansdowne). In the collection of the Marquess of Lansdowne, Bowood. 364. MILKING-TIME. In the right foreground a cow stands in profile to the right. A girl with a straw hat is milking her. In the centre, behind the cow, to the left, are two large brass milk-cans. To the left is a view over a flat pasture, where numerous cows are grazing or lying down ; one cow in the left middle distance is also being milked. To the right, behind the first cow, another is grazing. A chalk study for the milkmaid is in the Albertina, Vienna. She forms, with the cow, the principal group, and is almost exactly repeated in the Weber, Bridgewater, and Hermitage pictures (367), (369), and (379). Of the master's early period. Panel, 20 inches by 26 inches. Sale. J. Gillott, London, April 19, 1872. In the collection of John Heugh, Dublin, who presented it to the Dublin National Gallery in 1873. In the Dublin National Gallery, 1898 catalogue, No. 49. 365. COWS RESTING, ONE BEING MILKED (or, A Pastoral Landscape). In the foreground cows are resting ; one is being milked by a woman. There are other figures. On the right is an open landscape ; on the left are ruins. It is genuine, but an utter wreck. Some authorities doubt its authenticity. [Pendant to 195.] Signed with the monogram ; panel, 13 inches by 20 inches. Mentioned by Hofstede de Groot, Oud Holland, xi. 138. In the collection of John Graham Gilbert, bequeathed to Glasgow in 1877. In the Glasgow Art Gallery, 1908 catalogue, No. 251. 366. FOUR COWS WITH A MILKMAID BY THE RIVERSIDE. In the collection of the Earl of Wemyss, Gosford House. 367. A YOUNG MILKMAID IN A PASTURE. Sm. 21, 70, and Suppl. 9. A sunny landscape. Through the middle distance flows a placid river, with many barges on it. In the foreground pasture a young girl sits milking a big cow, with its head to the right. The girl is in profile to the left but turns her head to the spectator. She wears a bluish skirt, a red bodice with white sleeves, a brown apron, and a big