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viii PHILIPS WOUWERMAN 395 In the Six van Vromade collection, Amsterdam. In the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, 3rd supplement to 1907 catalogue, No. 27194. 477. Post-Horses being Fed. Sm. 391 and Suppl. 179. A decayed cottage" built against a ruined wall, behind which to the left is a large haystack. In the angle of the cottage and wall are a hay-rack and manger, at which stand three horses, the left-hand one with its head turned away, the others in profile to the left ; the nearest horse is a grey. A man brings forward a basket of fodder. Another man bridles a horse standing to the left of the centre. On the extreme left is a leafless tree. To the right is a woman with a child ; another woman is at the cottage window. Signed on the right at foot ; canvas, 19^ inches by 22 inches (within the frame). Engraved by Ozanne as " Les Relais Flamands." In the collection of Count Brtihl, when engraved. In the Hermitage Palace, St. Petersburg, 1842 (Sm.), but not to be identified with any picture there now. Sale. Baron de Beurnonville, Paris, May 9, 1881, No. 558 ; said to measure 20 inches by 23 inches, and to be identical with 448. In the collection of Maurice Kann, Paris. In the possession of the Paris dealer F. Kleinberger. In the collection of F. Stoop, Byfleet. 478. INTERIOR OF A STABLE-YARD. Sm. 441 To the left is an archway. Several horses and figures. Among them is a youth on a grey horse ; a man holds the bridle and whips the horse. A cavalier on a bay horse, followed by a lady on a bay, approaches the entrance. On the left, a man has dismounted from a dun horse ; in front is another horse lying down. "The picture is of good quality but a little too dark" (Sm.). The old catalogue wrongly attributed it to Pieter Wouwerman. Signed ; panel, 13 inches by 19 inches. Mentioned by Waagen (iii. 448). In the Fitzwilliam collection, Cambridge, 1829 (Sm., who valued it at 2 : ios.). In the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, 1898 catalogue, No. 80. 479. THE GREAT STABLE- YARD. Sm. Suppl. 16. Two cavaliers on a bay horse and a roan and a lady with falcon on wrist on a bay halt, with their two dogs, at the entrance to the stable. On the left a man is mounting his horse, to which a groom is attending. Two children near him play with a kid. In the right background of the stable are three horses at a rack. A groom points to them while conversing with a man on horseback who has halted in the centre. Farther to the right and nearer the front are four more horses. A grey horse drinks from a pail ; another is tied to a beam ; a third is being groomed. Through the open stable-door is seen a landscape. To the right of the entrance is a cottage. Signed on the right at foot with the full monogram ; panel, 18 inches by 26^ inches.