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53 PHILIPS WOUWERMAN SECT. him, near the edge of the frame, a young woman pushes a cask forward. To the left of him another soldier stands smoking to the right of a manger ; he faces the spectator. Between them, farther back, a soldier, seen from the back, sits conversing with a girl. Behind him is a mounted trumpeter, seen in full face. In the centre a saddled grey horse stands in profile to the right at the manger ; the sunlight falls on its back. On the left soldiers divert themselves. To the music of a kettle-drum and a flute a couple are dancing, while three soldiers lie watching them. " Painted in the artist's second manner " (Sm.). Signed on the left at foot with the full monogram ; panel, 14^ inches by i6| inches. Engraved by Visscher, by Le Bas and by G. Texier as a pendant to 859 in the Lebrun Gallery. In the possession of J. B. P. Lebrun, Paris, 1792. Sold privately by Sm. (210). Sale. London, 1825 (157 : ios., Emmerson). Purchased in Amsterdam, 1826. In the collection of L. Dupper, bequeathed to the Rijksmuseum, 1870. In the Rijkmuseum, Amsterdam, Dupper bequest, 1907 catalogue, No. 2709. 844. HORSE-SOLDIERS BEFORE A SUTLER'S TENT. Sm. 62, 373, and Suppl. 263. In front of a sutler's tent on the left a trumpeter on a grey horse halts with his back to the spectator ; the horse is grazing. He converses with the sutler's girl, whom his dismounted comrade is caressing. On the right a third man sits on a dun horse in profile to the left, holding his plumed hat. In front is a dog. In the middle distance a woman with two children on horseback and a mounted man ride away. An " excellent picture " (Sm.). Signed with the monogram ; panel, 14 inches by 16 inches. Engraved by Visscher. In the collection of Queen Elizabeth Farnese (1692-1766), wife of Philip V. of Spain ; her arms are on the back. In the Lormier collection, The Hague, 1752 (Hoet, ii. 447) ; it was in his store-room catalogue, December 1754, No. 347 ; he had bought it from Jaques de Roore (for 330 florins). Sales. Willem Lormier, The Hague, July 4, 1763, No. 333 (1000 florins). George Morant, London, 1832 (136 : ios.) ; it was in his collec- tion in 1829 (Sm., who then valued it at 315). In the collection of Henry Bevan, London, 1842 (Sm.). Sale. Sir Edward J. Dean Paul, London, 1896. In the possession of the Paris dealer C. Sedelmeyer, "Catalogue of 100 Paintings," 1896, No. 51. In the collection of E. Arnold, Berlin. 845. AT THE SUTLER'S BOOTH. Sm. Suppl. 48. Three soldiers are resting at a sutler's tent on the left. One, a trumpeter, sits on his roan horse, holding a trumpet in his right hand and a jug in his left. The two others have dismounted. One, seated on the left with his back to the spectator, embraces a girl ; his grey horse stands in the centre, in profile to the left. The third man stands beside his horse behind the