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380 PHILIPS WOUWERMAN SECT. holding two children in her arms, who stands in front of them. In the right background is a river with many boats, some of which are drawn up on the bank. This is a very early and good picture, brownish in tone, especially in the ground and the lighting. The cloud high up on the right is, however, somewhat too black. Signed on the right at foot with the full monogram ; panel, 1 3 inches by 23 inches. Engraved in the Brtlhl collection by A. Tischler, and by Filheul as " Les Voituriers." In the collection of Count Brllhl. In the Hermitage Palace, St. Petersburg, 1901 catalogue, No. 1007 ; it was there in 1842 (Sm.). 435. TWO CAVALIERS AND A LADY ON HORSE- BACK HALTING AT AN INN. Sm. 371, and Suppl. 164. The lady wears a blue dress under a yellow cloak trimmed with ostrich feathers. She is mounted on a grey horse, and holds a little dog on the saddle. One cavalier on a piebald horse laughingly holds up his empty glass to the lady. The other cavalier has dismounted from a bay horse, and stands with his back to the spectator talking to the host. A dog lies at his feet. At the inn door is an old woman. From the right approaches a peasant family. The man holds a little boy by the hand, and leads a pack-ass carrying two baskets, in one of which is a baby. The woman carries a third child in her arms. In the distance is a landscape with hills on the horizon. This must have been a very fine picture but has darkened too much, so that the grey horse is out of tone. Signed on the left at foot with the full monogram j panel, 13 inches by i6 inches. Engraved by Moitte as " Le Repos des Voyageurs " in the Brtlhl collection. In the collection of Count Brtlhl. In the Hermitage Palace, St. Petersburg, 1901 catalogue, No. 1013. 436. HALT OF CAVALIERS AND A LADY AT AN INN. Sm. Suppl. 115. Three cavaliers and a lady halt at a village inn. To the left, one rider sits on a bank playing with a dog. The lady on a bay horse speaks to a girl standing in front of her. A second horseman with a broad-brimmed hat and a buff coat has hastily ridden up to his com- rade. Behind the girl a grey horse stands at a manger. A third rider stands on the left, in front of the others, with his back to the spectator. To the right, on the road up the bank, sit a peasant and a woman with a child in her arms and a dog at her feet. This is a work of the mature period ; it is genuine and not at all bad. Signed on the left at foot with the full monogram ; panel, 1 1 inches by 12 inches. In the collection of Count Koucheleff-Besborodko, St. Petersburg, 1866 catalogue, No. 20 ; it was there in 1842 (Sm.). 437- A CAVALIER AND LADY HALTING AT AN INN. Sm. 522. Six figures. In the centre foreground stands a grey horse, in profile to the right. A groom with three dogs holds the horse's bridle,