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vm PHILIPS WOUWERMAN 535 sounds a call. Behind him a woman in a large hat rides a horse. Nearer the front a dismounted soldier holds his restive dun horse, which kicks out behind and frightens a woman. Her basket of apples falls from her head and two boys kneel to pick up the fruit. On the left is a group of four figures ; a man embraces a woman. On the right are a man on a brown horse and a woman on a grey, seen from the back. In the centre of the middle distance people are dancing to the sound of a pipe. Signed in the right-hand corner with the monogram ; panel, 13^ inches by i8 inches. In the collection of Sir J. Shelley Sydney, Bart., Penshurst, 1829 (Sm., who valued it at .300). 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. 859. HORSE-SOLDIERS AT A SUTLER'S BOOTH. Sm. 158. On the right, five horse-soldiers halt before two tents decorated with garlands and flags. One, a trumpeter, is in the centre facing right ; he sounds a call. To the right of him, a man on a grey horse, almost facing the spectator, holds up his wine-glass in his right hand ; he speaks to a woman with a jug who stands before him to the left, with a child at her side. Behind him are two of his comrades ; one of them, a cuirassier, fires a pistol in the air ; the other, who is nearer the front with his back to the spectator, has a woman mounted behind him. In the centre fore- ground is a dog. On the left sit a man and a woman with a child in her arms ; the woman is seen from the back. Beyond, in the middle distance, a couple of beggars look at the trumpeter. Farther back are horsemen, with a view of a camp in the distant plain. Panel, 15 inches by 17! inches. At the sale, H. D. Roussel, Brussels, May 23, 1893, No. 72, was a picture on canvas, 14^ inches by 18 inches, agreeing in details with this work and probably a copy of it. Mentioned by Ch. Blanc, Le Tresor de la Curiosite, ii. 19 ; by Buchanan, Memoirs of Painting, pp. 191-92 ; and by Waagen (ii. 18). Engraved by Visscher ; by Le Bas in the Lebrun Gallery as " Le Coup de Pistolet," as pendant to 843 ; and by Picquenot. Exhibited at the British Institution, London, 1826-27 > anc ^ at Manchester, 1857, No. 980. Sales. Nogaret, Paris, 1780 (4201 francs, Quenet). Claude Tolozan, Paris, February 23, 1801 (4260 francs). Imported into England by Delahante, and bought by Walsh Porter. Sales. Heathcote, London, 1805 (367 : los.). John Humble, London, April ii, 1812 (409:105. according to Sm. ; or 414 : 155., according to Art Sales'). In the Royal collection at Buckingham Palace, London, No. 53 ; it was in the Royal collection, 1829 (Sm.). 860. HORSE-SOLDIERS AT A SUTLER'S BOOTH.- Over the door are a flag and a bush on a pole. A mounted trumpeter in a red coat sounds a call. Other figures are mounted or on foot. In front are two children playing with dogs, and some hens.