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viii PHILIPS WOUWERMAN 335 ground is a cottage j it has a door opening on a wooden bridge, which a woman is crossing. To the left sits a peasant with sheep. At one side a grey horse is grazing ; another horse is lying down. Farther back is a village. Panel, 18 inches by 16 inches. Sale. Pieter Gets and others, Amsterdam, January 31, 1791, No. 3 (22 florins, Goll). 2690. Two Horses. One is a grey. Farther back are figures in a landscape. Panel. Sale. Antwerp, May 12, 1806, No. 91. 270. A Horse standing and another lying down. With figures in a hilly landscape. 15 inches by 17 inches. Sales. Herman Schuurman, Rotterdam, April 2, 1739 (Hoet, i. 571), No. 7 (145 florins, Jacob van Dam). J. A. van Dam, Dordrecht, June I, 1829, No. 151 (48 florins, Abrahams). 271. A Halt of Travellers in a Landscape. Sm. 264. In the foreground a grey horse is feeding out of a basket which a man fills with hay. Beyond it stands a brown horse laden with baggage. Near them, by the roadside, sits a woman with a child in her lap and a little boy at her side. On the opposite side, farther ofF, a man walks beside a woman on horseback. "Painted in the artist's middle time" (Sm.). Panel, 13^ inches by I2| inches. Sale. Le Brun, Paris, 1812 (2360 francs). In the collection of Alexander Baring, London, 1829 (Sm.). 272. Travellers reposing. Sm. Suppl. 210. Near an old tree, in the foreground of a barren landscape, a grey horse is browsing and a bay is cropping the leaves. Beyond, to the left, a woman with a child in her arms and two men are resting. Farther back, on a hill-top, a post-waggon halts at a cottage. " This pleasing picture is painted in the artist's second manner." Panel, 13! inches by 16 inches. In the collection of J. Newington Hughes, 1 842 (Sm.). Sale. J. Newington Hughes, London, April 14, 1848 (.107 : 2s., Norton). 273. Two Horses grazing and People resting. In the right foreground, under a large tree, a woman sits with her child at her breast ; tired peasants are resting. Near them stand two horses ; one, a grey horse, is grazing, while the other, a brown horse, is cropping the leaves. Farther back a countryman is sowing seed. At one side some people are resting. A shepherd is driving his flock. Hilly background. Panel, 14^ inches by 17^ inches. Sales. Baron Pabst van Bingerden, The Hague, September 7, 1842, No. 44 (9000 florins). P. de Leeuw and P. Barbiers, Amsterdam, July n, 1843, No. 125.