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via PHILIPS WOUWERMAN 303 148*7. A Farrier shoeing a Horse. With other figures. Canvas, 14 inches by i6 inches. Sale. J. Domisse, Middelburg, March 31, 1773, No. 35. 149. The Farrier's Shop. A hunting party has halted. On the left a dappled-white horse is being shod. Near it, a man is fastening a carpet-bag on the saddle of his grey horse. Farther away are a man and woman on brown horses. The farrier's man stands at the door of the shop. There are two dogs and three fowls. In the right middle distance are a man resting and another man standing up, with two hares on a stick and two dogs near him. In the background is a man on an ass in a fine landscape. Panel, 13^ inches by 15^ inches. Sale. Van der Mark, Amsterdam, August 25, 1773, No. 370 (965 florins, Van Damme). 150. A Farrier's Shop. Sm. 25. In front a boy holds a white horse, while the farrier shoes it. Near him stands a child. Beyond is the shop, in which a man works at the anvil. Panel, 12^ inches by 15^ inches. Sale. Paillet, Paris, 1777 (1000 francs). 151. A Farrier's Shop. In front are three horses. One is being shod, while its rider looks on. Farther away are other figures. To the right is a clifF, in a cave at the foot of which a man is working at the forge. To the left is a plain with figures and animals. Panel, 13 inches by 14 inches. Sale. J. F. Beschey, Antwerp, August 21, 1786, No. 5 (800 florins, Spruyt for Bryan). 152. Halting at the Farrier's. Sm. 185. Numerous figures and horses. In the right foreground is the door of a farrier's shop, at which a post-waggon with two horses has stopped. A traveller has his horse's hoof examined. To the left sit four people, eating and drinking. [Probably identical with 133.] Panel, 14 inches by i8 inches. Sale. De Clesne, Paris, December 4, 1786 (5000 francs). 153. The Country Farrier. Sm. 162. A cavalier is having his horse shod. One man holds the horse's hoof, while the farrier is about to hammer the nails. A boy holds the horse's head. Farther off are a man and a negro woman begging. Panel, n| inches by 14^ inches. Sale. Coders, Paris, February 9, 1789 (1300 francs). 154. A Farrier's Shop. In a landscape, beside a cottage, a cavalier holds a saddled grey horse while a farrier shoes it. In the centre a lady on a brown horse is giving money to a beggar carrying a child. At one side a sportsman is shooting birds ; here, too, is another horseman. Canvas, 15 inches by 15^ inches. Sale. J. Pekstok, Amsterdam, December 17, 1792, No. 1 08.