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534 PHILIPS WOUWERMAN SECT. Signed with the monogram ; canvas, a wide oval, 19 inches by 30 inches. In the collection of Count Moltke, Copenhagen, 1885 catalogue, No. 90. 856. HALT OF OFFICERS (La Belle Laitiere). Sm. 112. In a camp numerous soldiers on foot or on horseback are in front of a tent over which a flag is flying. An officer, holding his horse's bridle, speaks to a sutler's girl carrying a can ; another officer on a grey horse drains his jug ; a mounted trumpeter sounds a call. Near the tent a man puts fodder before one of two horses. In the centre is an old tree. In the distance is a rocky landscape with a river, near which soldiers are gambling, and beyond which are more tents on a hillside. In the foreground are a beggar, and two children playing with a dog. " This beautiful picture is painted in the artist's second manner, brilliant in colour and beautifully enamelled " (Sm.). Signed with the full monogram, PHILS W ; panel, 19 inches by i6| inches. Mentioned by Ch. Blanc, Le Tre'sor de la Curiosite, ii. 10 ; and by Waagen (i. 408). Engraved by Le Bas as " Halte d'Officiers." Exhibited at the British Institution, London, 1821. Salts. Comte Dubarry, Paris, November 21, 1774 (4000 francs). Poullain, Paris, March 15, 1780 (3460 francs, Paillet). John Webb, London, 1821 (220 : ios., Peile). In the collection of Sir Robert Peel, 1829 (Sm.) ; purchased with the collec- tion for the National Gallery, 1871. In the National Gallery, London, 1906 catalogue, No. 878. 857. HORSE-SOLDIERS AT A SUTLER'S BOOTH. Sm. 333 and Suppl. 129 ; M. 28. On the right are tents and a tree. In front of them are six horses, four of which are mounted. On the nearest, a prancing white horse, sits a trumpeter, who sounds a call. Next to him sits a cuirassier, who drinks a glass of wine ; the sutler, with a jug, stands at his side. The two other horsemen are near the tree. Among many other figures are a beggar with a dog and two children playing with another dog. " A picture of first-rate excellence and beauty " (Sm.). Canvas, 2O inches by 26 inches. Mentioned by Ch. Blanc, Le Trisor de la Curiosite", i. 422. Engraved by Moyreau, No. 28, in 1737, as " Quartiers de Rafraichissement." In the collection of the Comtesse de Verrue. In the collection of M. de Ravanne, 1737. Sale. Servad, Amsterdam, June 25, 1778, No. 122 (1800 florins, Fouquet). In the collection of Madame Hoffmann, Haarlem, 1827-42 (Sm., who valued it in 1829 at 525). Sale. Madame Hoffmann, 1846 (Lord Ashburton). In the collection of Lord Ashburton, The Grange ; bought as a whole, 1907, by the London dealers Thomas Agnew and Sons, in whose possession the picture was in 1908. 858. A Halt at a Sutler's Booth. Sm. 305. In front of two tents on the left a trumpeter on a bay horse, seen in a foreshortened view,