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374 PHILIPS WOUWERMAN SECT. Sales. John Newington Hughes, London, April 14, 1848 (54 : izs., Gold- smidt). Goldsmidt, London, 1850 (60 : i8s.). 413*7. Horses and Peasants resting on the Road. Sale. S. Woodburn, London, June 24, 1853 (190, Gritten). 413^. A Family halting. A man with two horses stands near. Signed with the monogram ; copper, 23 inches by 19 inches. Wrongly said to be in the Dresden Gallery in 1863 (Parthey, ii. 808). It cannot be identified with any of the pictures painted on copper that are already there, or with any other. 41 3^. Peasants resting. In the centre stands a grey horse facing left. A bay horse lies near. To the right are a loaded country waggon, and a peasant family with children. At the back is a landscape, with trees on a bank. Canvas, 14 inches by 16 inches. Sale. A. J. Essingh, Cologne, September 1 8, 1865, No. 245. 414. A Peasant Family. A waggon drawn by a mare comes down a steep hill. It is heavily laden with household goods ; a woman with a child sits on the top. A man leads the mare. There are other persons on foot and a horseman. In the foreground a dog is drinking. Signed at foot with the early monogram ; canvas, 14 inches by 21 inches. Exhibited at Brussels, 1882, No. 276. Sale. Ruelens, Brussels, April 17, 1883, No. 297. 415. Peasants halting on the Road. On a bank by the road- side, in front of a cottage with two trees, sits a countrywoman with a child on her lap. She speaks to a pilgrim sitting beside her on the right, with his back to the spectator. A peasant stands behind him. Another peasant on a grey horse carrying goods halts on the right. At the top of the bank, farther back, sits yet another peasant, holding the rein of a pack-mule facing left in profile. On the left is a river with a masted ship. Signed on the right at foot with the monogram ; panel, 19 inches by 15 inches. Mentioned by Paul Eudel, L' Hotel Drouot en 1883, p. 350. Sales. Count Schonborn, of Pommersfelden, Paris, May 17, 1867, No. 140 (No. 231 in the 1857 catalogue of this collection). Baron de Beurnonville, Paris, May 21, 1883, No. 1 10 (10,900 francs.) 4150. A Herdsman's Family resting. On a gentle eminence, up which goes a laden waggon, a herdsman's family is grouped round a grey pack-horse. The woman carries a child in her arms. Fine in tone. Signed on the right at foot with the monogram ; panel, 19 inches by 1 9^ inches. Sale. Cologne, June 28, 1890, No. 87.