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viii PHILIPS WOUWERMAN 563 In front of the wall to the left a man loads a cart with hay which another man hands up from a boat lying beside the bank of a turbulent stream on the left. Nearer the front a peasant with his wife and child is lunching. Near the cart a grey horse and a bay are grazing. Farther back to the right a girl on a dappled-grey horse holds a rake and converses with a man in a red jacket. To the right a boy pulls another on a sledge. A beggar family encamp in the archway. A woman is on the steps of the tower. [Pendant to 646.] Panel, 13^ inches by 15^ inches. Engraved by Moyreau, No. 42, as " Le Marchand de Foin " ; and also in the Musee Napoleon. In one of the Royal Prussian palaces. In the Louvre ; restored in 1816. In the Kaiser Friedrich Museum, Berlin, 1906 catalogue, No. 903. 935. HARVESTERS IN THE MIDDAY REST. In the foreground of a cornfield at harvest -time country people sit on the ground beside a stream flowing to the right. One man holds an earthenware jug to his lips and leans back to drink. Another is eating a piece of meat which he has cut off a bone. Beside him a woman holds a sleeping child. To the left lies a dog. To the right of this group are two horses, a grey which is grazing and a bay which is lying down. Near them to the right is the front of a loaded harvest-waggon. To the left the cornfield stretches far away into the middle distance ; labourers are reaping and binding the sheaves. Beyond are houses and trees. In the right distance are hills. In the centre is a road on which a horseman and a man on foot approach the front. Signed at foot in the left-hand corner with the full monogram ; panel, I2| inches by 14 inches. In the chief Kassel inventory, 1749, No. 625. In the Palace, Kassel, 1783 inventory, No. 60. In the Louvre, Paris, 1806-15. In the Picture Gallery, Kassel, 1903 catalogue, No. 346 (old No. 319). 936. A VIEW OF A CORNFIELD AT HARVEST. Sm. 432. In the foreground to the right is a cart almost filled with corn, drawn by a grey horse which is grazing ; it is seen from the back in a three-quarter view. A woman stands on the top taking a sheaf from a man. In front of the cart sits a woman with a child beside her. To her right stands a man in profile to the left. A dog drinks at a stream on the left. In the middle distance is a farm with a cornfield ; labourers are reaping and binding the sheaves. Signed on the right at foot on the road with the full monogram ; panel, 12 inches by 12 inches. Engraved in the Musee Napoleon. Purchased in 1715 from Jan Goeree, with 400 and a tapestry representing Mary Magdalen (for 300 florins). These came from the estate of Gerard Reuver and his wife Baligje Hulft, who had inherited the pictures from her brother Jan Hulft of Brussels.