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vin PHILIPS WOUWERMAN 293 a bare dead tree, a boy holds a grey horse with a red saddle, in profile to the right. The rider kneels in front, fastening his spurs. In the left middle distance a soldier sits on the ground, eating. In the distance a horseman converses with a woman in front of a sutler's booth. Signed in the right-hand bottom corner, Ph. Wouwerman ; panel, 20 inches by 15^ inches. Mentioned by Ch. Blanc, Le Trhor de la Curiosite, i. 179 ; ii. 4 and 106. Exhibited at Berlin, 1906, No. 155. Engraved by Weith in the Choiseul Gallery, No. 20. Sales. Due de Choiseul, Paris, 1772 (1510 francs). Trouart, Paris, February 22, 1779 (1700 francs, Changran). Marquis de Changran, Paris, February 21, 1780 (1700 francs). Langraff, Paris, 1784 (2501 francs). Proley, Paris, 1787 (2110 francs). Count Koucheleff Besborodko, Paris, June 5, 1869, No. 42 (19,500 francs). Edwardes, Paris, May 25, 1905, No. 45. In the possession of the Paris dealer F. Kleinberger. In the collection of Marcus Kappel, Berlin. 120. FOUR CAVALIERS HALTING AT A FARRIER'S SHOP. Sm. 428 and Suppl. 201. Four cavaliers halt in the left fore- ground. One has dismounted. Two farriers are shoeing the ofF hind- hoof of his horse. In the right middle distance a couple of beggars sit by the roadside ; the woman has a child at the breast. In the left middle distance is a town ; to the right is a river ; in the distance are hills. Signed on the road in the left-hand bottom corner with the full monogram ; panel, 13 inches by 16 inches. Engraved in the Musee Fran9ais. Sold in the collection of the Due d'Orleans, 1749. Not in the Lormier collection, as Sm. says. He confuses it with the similar picture (136), in the collection of the Earl of Lonsdale, in which there are children on stilts. In the Schloss Altstadt, Kassel, 1783 inventory, No. 45. At the Louvre, 1806-1815. In the Picture Gallery, Kassel, 1903 catalogue, No. 347 (old No. 320). 121. A FARRIER SHOEING A PIEBALD HORSE. Sm. 393 and Suppl. 180. In the left foreground is a field smithy under trees. A piebald horse stands facing right. A farrier shoes its off fore-foot, held by his man ; the rider, an officer, stands on the right, looking on. Behind them a second horseman, facing the spectator, has halted. Near him to the right is a woman with a child in her arms. To the left, a brown horse is tied in a wooden frame j two farriers are extracting some of its teeth. In the left foreground two children are playing with tools. On the right a boy gives his little sister a ride in a three-wheeled cart drawn by a goat. To the left, and farther back, is a little girl with a toy wind- mill in her left hand. In the centre foreground are a hen and a dog ; to the right are two ducks. Behind these in the middle distance are a man lying down and a woman selling fruit to two children, one of whom, a boy, has a hobby-horse. Farther back a horseman comes along the road,