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358 PHILIPS WOUWERMAN SECT. 361*7. Peasants travelling approach a Ford. With a waggon, horses, and dogs. Trees to the centre and houses to the right. 15 inches by 22 inches. Sale. De Falbe, London, May 19, 1900, No. 143. 362. TRAVELLERS WAITING FOR THE FERRY. In the centre foreground travellers wait on the bank of an Italian lake for the ferry-boat, which a man is rowing to the shore. Among them are a gentleman in a red cloak on a chestnut horse, seen from the back, a boy on a grey horse loaded with a tub and packages, two Capuchin friars, some peasants, and a herdsman with cows and sheep. Behind the group is a rocky cavern. On the road leading from this to the bank come a horse and waggon and some persons on foot. In the distance are mountains and a castle. This is an example of the early period. The landscape is almost the same as in 88, also at the Hermitage. Canvas, 26 inches by 32 inches. Acquired by the Empress Catherine II. In the Hermitage Palace, St. Petersburg, 1901 catalogue, No. 1016. 363. The Ferry. People with horses, cows, and sheep wait to cross. A very fine picture. Dated 1659. Sale. Amsterdam, August 9, 1739 (Hoet, i. 596), No. 4 (160 florins). 3630. At a Ferry. Figures and horses wait on the bank. o inches by n inches. Sale. Hendrik van der Vugt, Amsterdam, April 27, 1745 (Hoet, ii. 159), No. 39 (30 florins). 364. The Ferry-Boat A hilly country with a river. On the right bank is a group of four persons, one of whom has a child, with a grey and a bay horse. They wait for the return of a boat with passengers and cattle which has just reached the opposite bank. Beyond are two figures on a road beside a hill. " An early production " (Sm.). Panel, about 14 inches by 16 inches. Sale. T. Jones, London, 1837 (65 : 25.). 365. The Ferry. At the foot of a rocky hill to the left is a river with a ferry-boat. On a tongue of land to the right are several figures with a bay and a grey horse. At the water's edge a dog barks at the ferry-boat laden with passengers, near which are two bathers. Three figures ascend a path on the hill. The right-hand group includes a kneeling woman who points out the horses to her child. The horseman bends down to the child, while the father stands behind with another child and looks on. Farther away a peasant lies on the ground. Cloudy sky. Panel, 14^ inches by 18 inches. Sales. Vanderbelen, Brussels, 1840. J. J. Chapuis, Brussels, December 4, 1865, No. 429. In the possession of the Paris dealer F. Kleinberger. In the collection of Jules Porges, Paris.