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334 PHILIPS WOUWERMAN SECT. stands, with his back to the spectator, in front of an old monument. A boy holds a brown horse. There is also a grey horse in a green landscape. In the collection of Boughton Knight, Downton Castle, near Ludlow. 264. TWO HORSES (or, A Man bridling a Grey Horse). Sm. Suppl. 194. To the left, in front of a cottage, a peasant is bridling a grey horse which faces left. A brown horse lies on the ground to the left. To the right a boy in a blue jacket plays with a dog. In the right distance a peasant is ploughing. To the left the sky is full of rain- clouds. [Compare the similar Dresden picture 213.] Signed on the left at foot with the monogram ; panel, 12 inches by 15 inches. Sale. J. van Bergen van der Grijp and others, Soeterwoude, June 25, 1784, No. 136 (225 florins, Fouquet). Acquired in 1817 from the Neufville-Gontard collection. In the Stadel'sches Kunstinstitut, Frankfort-on-Main, 1900 catalogue, No. 312. 265. A GREY HORSE AND A BROWN HORSE. In front of a cliff. On the ground lies a soldier. An old woman combs a dog's coat. In the right background, horsemen ride up a hill. Very brown in tone. Signed in the left centre with the early monogram. In the Lierre Museum, 1899 catalogue, No. 6. 266. Two Horses in a Pasture. A grey horse stands in the centre ; a chestnut lies down to the left. To the right a man with a fur cap sits with his dog. In the left background, some sheep rest near a little hill on which are two almost leafless trees. Some birds in a cloudy sky. Signed on the left or right, according to the Martinet sale catalogue with the monogram j panel, 13^ inches by 10 inches. Sales. H. D. Roussel, Brussels, May 23, 1893, No. 71. Martinet, Paris, February 27, 1896, No. 43. In the possession of the Paris dealer F. Kleinberger. In the Blirger collection, Paris. 267. A Brown Horse and a Piebald. With a man, woman, and child in a landscape. Panel, 14^ inches by i6 inches. In the collection of Willem Lormier, The Hague ; he had bought it from Jan Block, Ghent (for 475 florins), according to his store-room catalogue of December 1754, No. 342 ; sold by him to Van Bragge, May I, 1758 (for 650 florins). 268. A Brown Horse and a Grey. They stand in the foreground of a landscape. To the right, near a tree, three men lie asleep. In the distance are trees and hills. [Pendant to 677^.] Panel, 7 inches by 9 inches. Sale. N. NieuhofF, Amsterdam, April 14, 1777, No. 244 (71 florins, with pendant, Roos). 269. Two Horses in a Landscape. On a road in the right fore-