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360 PHILIPS WOUWERMAN SECT. 369. The Shying Horse. A train of baggage-waggons goes along a road intersected by a river. To the right is a farm. A loaded waggon with four horses goes slowly up the hill. The two front horses have reached the summit, while the two others, led by the driver, exert all their strength. At the foot of the road a horse refuses to cross the ford, to the great alarm of a woman in the waggon, and in spite of the driver who pulls the horse by the bridle and lashes it with his whip. The farmer looks on ; a woman with a child at her breast sits at the roadside conversing with a man carrying a bundle. To the left is a landscape. [Compare 367-] Sale. Prince Demidoff, San Donate, March 15, 1880, No. 1104. 370. THREE HORSEMEN HALTING AT A WELL. At a stone well near a cottage on a hill, three horsemen draw rein to let their horses take breath. One man has dismounted to give his grey horse a pail of water to drink. The two others sit on their horses, respectively a bay and a dun-coloured. There are two dogs. In the right distance is a view of the sea. Two half-naked bathers sit on the edge of the bank. Brown in tone ; the figures are strongly relieved against the light. This dates from about the same time as the early picture in the Mauritshuis at the Hague (654). Compare also the other Antwerp picture (208). Signed on the left at foot with the full monogram ; panel, 17^ inches by 15 inches. Sale. D. van der Schrieck of Louvain, Brussels, April 8, 1861, No. 144 (1600 francs, Le Grel for the Antwerp Museum). In the Antwerp Museum, 1905 catalogue, No. 500. 371. TRAVELLERS WITH A LOADED WAGGON RESTING NEAR A WATERFALL. Sm. 8 ; M. 14. In the left middle distance are buildings on a rock. In front of these is a wooden bridge over a foaming torrent which forms a waterfall towards the fore- ground. To the right is a view over a hilly landscape. In the centre foreground halts a large loaded waggon with five horses, the foremost of which is grazing. To the right are pack-mules and men resting with women, children, and dogs on the road. [Pendant to 626.] Signed on the right at foot with the full monogram ; copper, 12 inches by 15 inches. Mentioned by Ch. Blanc, Le Trlsor de la Curiositi, i. 7, 61 ; and by Parthey (ii. 808). Engraved by Moyreau, No. 14, as "La Cascade." According to Sm. Sales. Comtesse de Verrue, Paris, March 27, 1737, No. 72 (1400 francs, with pendant). De Tugny et Crozat, Paris, June 1751 (1860 francs, Stoltz). But according to the Dresden catalogue Bought from the collection of the Comtesse de Verrue, through Le Leu, for Dresden, 1749. In the Royal Picture Gallery, Dresden, 1905 catalogue, No. 1444. 372. TRAVELLERS IN A LANDSCAPE. Along a range of