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vm PHILIPS WOUWERMAN 467. Travellers halting at an Old House. Sm. Suppl. 217. The house is to the right. One traveller rides a fine piebald horse. Another, with a red cap, is mounting a bay horse. Beyond these, a groom rides a restive grey horse down the bank of a river ; two boys are bathing and two others are entering the water. Two other boys are on a wall, near the door of the house. On the left are two dogs fighting ; one of them is held by a boy. " Painted in the latter time of the artist ; clear and beautiful in tone " (Sm.). It has suffered from exposure to sunlight. Panel, 16 inches by 2o| inches. Mentioned by Waagen (ii. 186). In the collection of the Baron J. G. Verstolk van Soelen, The Hague, No. 90, in 1842 (Sm.) ; the collection was sold as a whole to T. Baring, H. B. Mildmay, and Lord Overstone, 1846. In the collection of Thomas Baring, London, 1854 (Waagen). In the collection of the Earl of Northbrook, who gave it in exchange to Baron A. de Rothschild, 1881. 467*7. Horsemen in Front of a Ruined House. A troop of horsemen are mounting. Signed with the monogram; canvas, 19^ inches by 15^ inches. Sale. M. Wolff, Berlin, May 25, 1857, No. 76. 467^. A Halt of Cavaliers at a Mansion. Sm. Suppl. 203. One cavalier rides a prancing piebald horse. Another has dismounted from a grey horse held by a boy, and fastens his boot near the fragment of a column. A man holds a saddle. Two horses are near a wall. This and the pendant "have become a little dark by time" (Sm.). [Pendant to 66*.] Panel, 19 inches by 15 inches. In the collection of Lord Saye and Sele, Belvedere, 1842 (Sm.). Sale. Sir C. E. Eardley, London, June 30, 1860 (99 : 153.). 468. Horsemen at the Inn. A sandy road leads through a land- scape framed by trees. In the left foreground is an inn, at which two horsemen halt. One has dismounted from his grey horse, on which the sunlight falls. A groom, attending the horse, gives it a basket of hay. Another groom brings from the right a trough of oats for the brown horse, whose rider has not dismounted, but sits drinking a glass of wine. In the style of Pieter van Laer. Panel, i6 inches by 20^ inches. In the collection of D. van der Schrieck, Louvain. Sales. Heris, Brussels, June 19, 1846, No. 94. D. van der Schrieck of Louvain, Brussels, April 8, 1 86 1, No. 148 (620 francs, Rommel). 468*7. Horseman at an Inn. In the Blankensee collection, Berlin, 1863 (Parthey, ii. 806). 468^. Travellers on Horseback leaving an Inn-Yard. In the collection of Dr. Motz, Bremen, 1863 (Parthey, ii. 807).