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vin PHILIPS WOUWERMAN 369 sack with which a child is playing. On a hill in the middle distance is a cottage, in front of which is another child at play. Gloomy black clouds in the sky. [Pendant to 397.] Signed on a stone on the right at foot with the full monogram ; panel, 18 inches by 15^ inches. In the collection of Madame Van Reuver, Delft, bought as a whole by the Landgraf of Hessen Kassel, December 18, 1750. In the chief Kassel inventory of 1749, No. 574. At the Schloss Altstadt, Kassel, 1783 inventory, No. 26. At the Louvre, Paris, 1806-15. In the Kassel Gallery, 1903 catalogue, No. 349 (old No. 322). 399. HALT OF PEASANTS RETURNING FROM MARKET. Sm. Suppl. 104. In the right foreground, leaning against a willow trunk, are two peasants returning from market and a woman with a child. Near them, on the ground, are two hens tied up, a bag, a stick, a dog, and a basket. To the left, near the tree, in profile to the right, are a bay horse with a collar on and a grey horse, unharnessed, which is cropping the grass. To the right of the figures is the head of a pack-ass. In the left middle distance are peasants, another grey horse grazing with its head away from the spectator, and a brown horse lying down. A cloudy day. Signed on a stone on the right at foot with the full monogram ; panel, II inches by 14 inches. In the chief Kassel inventory of 1749, No. 18. In the Kassel Academy, 1783 inventory, No. 41. At the Louvre, Paris, 1806-15. In the Kassel Gallery, 1903 catalogue, No. 351 (old No. 324). 400. A PEASANT FEEDING HIS HORSE ON THE WAY HOME FROM MARKET. Sm. 426 and Suppl. 154. On the right a swift stream flows past an old leafless tree towards the front. In the centre foreground a peasant in red has unharnessed his grey horse from a market-cart and put fodder before it. In the cart sits the peasant's wife with a child at her breast. On the right an empty poultry- basket hangs from the cart. In the left foreground lies a dog gnawing a bone. Behind, in the middle distance, a woman with a bundle on her back goes away to the left. A man is seated with his back to the spectator. Signed on the left at foot with the full monogram; panel, 12 inches by 10 inches. Engraved in the Musee Napoleon. A copy is in the National Museum, Stockholm, 1900 catalogue, No. 711. Bought with 936, and a tapestry representing Mary Magdalen, from Jan Goeree (for 300 florins). They formed part of the estate of Gerard Reuver and his wife Baligje Hulft, who had inherited both pictures from her brother Jan Hulft of Brussels. In the collection of Madame van Reuver, Delft, bought as a whole by the Landgraf of Hessen Kassel, December 18, 1750. In the chief Kassel inventory of 1749, No. 576. VOL. II 2 B