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53 2 PHILIPS WOUWERMAN SECT. Signed on the left at foot with the full monogram ; panel, 19 inches by i6 inches. In the Dresden inventory of 1722, A 711. In the Royal Picture Gallery, Dresden, 1905 catalogue, No. 1433. 850. THE ENSIGN AT THE SUTLER'S BOOTH. Sm. 506 and Suppl. 247. Before a booth on the right an ensign with a blue standard halts his white horse, which faces right. Beside him is a bay horse, with a trumpet fastened to the holster ; the rider has dismounted. A grey horse is held by a soldier who looks at a woman dancing to the music of the bagpipes played by an old man and a fiddle played by a boy. On the left soldiers are throwing dice on a drum ; farther back a wounded man is carried on a stretcher. The battle rages in the distance. " Painted in the artist's second manner " (Sm.). [Pendant to 524.] Signed on the right at foot with the full monogram ; panel, 14 inches by 17 inches. Acquired through Von Heinecken from Hamburg, 1740, inventory No. 2548. In the Royal Picture Gallery, Dresden, 1905 catalogue, No. 1441 (Sm. valued it in 1842 at 210). 851. TROOPERS RESTING IN CAMP. In the foreground a man leads a grey horse. An officer sits on the ground lighting his pipe. Another officer stands beside his bay horse, which waits to be fed. On the right are a trumpeter, seen from the back, and a mounted trooper about to drain a flask at the entrance to a tent. In the left foreground a boy gives water to a dog. A genuine work of mediocre quality. Signed on the left at foot with the full monogram ; panel, 12 inches by 1 6 inches. In the Dublin National Gallery, 1890 catalogue, No. 170 : purchased in 1887. 852. Horse-Soldiers at a Sutler's Booth. Sm. 271 and Suppl. 99. In front of a sutler's booth on the right some riders prepare for departure. The foremost stands to the left adjusting the bridle of his grey horse. The second man, to the right and farther back, is mounting his horse, which faces right. Behind him a lady on horseback is waiting. The sutler's woman stands to the right. The third man, a trumpeter, sits to the left on a dark-bay horse, seen from the front in a three-quarter view ; he holds a trumpet in his right hand, and turns to the right towards the grey horse. In front of him to the left stands a beggar. Beyond come a horseman with a man and woman on foot. In the distance are troops and tents. Signed on the right at foot ; panel, 14 inches by 16 inches. Sales. (Possibly) Creed, London, 1813 (155 : 8s.), according to Sra. Duchesse de Berry, Paris, April 4, 1837, No. 50 (7875 francs) ; it had been offered for private sale in London, 1834 (f r j3 DUt not sold). R. Papin, Paris, March 28, 1873. Prince Demidoff, San Donate, Florence, March 15, 1880, No. 1115.