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4 o8 PHILIPS WOUWERMAN SECT. 508^. A Stable. With various accessories. By Wouwerman or in his manner. [Compare 511.] Panel, 16 inches by 19 inches. Sale. Widow of J. H. Telting, born A. M. Jutting, Amsterdam, October 23, 1824, No. 22 (96 florins, J. de Vries). 508^. Interior of a Stable. With numerous horses. Through the open door is seen a fine landscape. Canvas, 14 inches by 18 inches. Sale. C. Singendonck, Amsterdam, April 11, 1825, No. 43 (100 florins, Jackson). 509. The Posting-Stable. Sm. 72 ; M. 73. On the left is the large open doorway, at which a groom rides a grey horse round a post, to which it is attached by a cord. A boy stands at the post. Beyond is a man in a cloak. In front on the other side of the door two peasants look on. Almost in the centre of the stable is a stallion, facing right. To the left of it, behind a pump, two horses stand at a rack with their tails to the spectator ; an ostler unsaddles one of them. To the left, in front of the grey, a groom rides to the left on a restive white horse, leading another horse which he turns round to look at. In the left foreground a little boy has been thrown from his seat on a goat. Another boy runs after him. "A beautiful example of the master " (Sm.). [Pendant to a picture by Berchem.] 1 6 inches by 20 inches. Mentioned by Ch. Blanc, Le Tresor de la Curicuite, i. 1 39. Engraved by Moyreau, No. 73, as "L'ficurie de la Poste." Exhibited at the British Institution, London, 1828. Sale. Julienne, Paris, March 30, 1767 (7545 francs, according to Blanc; 3520 francs with a picture by Berchem, according to Sm.). In the collection of the Earl of Plymouth, Knowle, 1829 (Sm., who valued it at 472 :ios.). 510. Interior of a Stable. Sm. 284. In a spacious stable two bay horses and a grey horse stand at a manger to the right. In the left centre is a freight- waggon with two horses, on one of which is a rider. Farther away is a tilt-waggon with three horses, on the foremost of which sits a man. A horseman, of whom a poor woman with a child begs an alms, an ostler, boys with a dog, and hens. " This picture, although a little dark, is truly admirable for the richness of its composition, in the number of the horses and the variety of action they display, the whole of which is finished with the most studious care. This is an example of the artist's second manner " (Sm.). Panel, i8 inches by 25 inches. A picture identical in details and of almost the same dimensions was in the sale of pictures from Saxony, Amsterdam, May 22, 1765 (Terw. 434), No. 96 (550 florins). Sales. Prince de Ruberapr, Brussels, April 11, 1765 (550 florins) according to Sm., but not mentioned by Terw.