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5 6 4 PHILIPS WOUWERMAN SECT. In the collection of Madame van Reuver, Delft, bought as a whole by the Landgraf of Hessen Kassel, December 18, 1750. In the Kassel Palace, 1783 inventory, No. 98. In the Louvre, Paris, 1806-15. In the Picture Gallery, Kassel, 1903 catalogue, No. 355 (old No. 328). 937. THE HAY- WAIN. Sm. 420. A river fills the foreground and flows away to the left. On the bank is a group of figures. In the centre a peasant in a high red cap rides into the water to ford the river. A woman mounted behind him leans down towards a little boy in a yellow jacket, whom a woman lifts in her arms to carry him across. To the right of her is a grey horse drawing a manure-cart ; the driver and the front part only are visible. Behind the woman is a laden hay-wain with two horses in front, facing the spectator. In the left middle distance four men are loading hay into boats. A hilly distance. Signed on the left with the full monogram j panel, 16 inches by 19 inches. Engraved by Duplessis-Bertaux in the Musee Napoleon ; by Dupreel as "Les Foins " in the Musee Fran^ais ; and by Huijgens in the Steengracht collection, No. 21. Sale. Samuel van Huls, The Hague, September 3, 1737 (Hoet, i. 479), No. 2 1 (680 florins). Sm. wrongly identifies it with the picture in the sale Pieter van Buytene, Delft, October 29, 1748 (Hoet, ii. 225), No. 4 (610 florins) which was tall and narrow. The Hague catalogue mentions neither this sale nor Sm.'s number. W. Burger, however, gives it in connection with Srn. in Musees de la Hollande, i. 261. In the Lormier collection, 1752 ; he had bought it from Gerard Block (for 792 florins) according to Hoet, ii. 446 ; in his store-room catalogue of December 1754, No. 340. Sale. Willem Lormier, The Hague, July 4, 1763 (Terw. 335), No. 327 (1215 florins). In the collection of Govert van Slingeland. In the collection of the Stadtholder William V. (Tcrw. 719). At the Louvre, Paris, 1795-1815. In the Royal Picture Gallery, The Hague, 1907 catalogue, No. 218 (Sm. valued it in 1829 at 262 : ios.). 938. HARVEST -TIME; A PASSING STORM. Sm. Suppl. 135. In the left foreground, before a cottage, a woman sits nursing a sleeping child. Another child sits beside her to the right ; farther away is a dog. On the right a grey horse and a dark horse stand in profile to the right. Behind them a man on a hay-cart forks up the hay to another man standing to the right on a higher hay-cart or a hay- stack. A third man stands behind. "Exposure to the sun has greatly injured this picture" (Sm.). Signed on the right at foot with the monogram ; panel, 12 inches by 15 inches. In the collection of King James II. In the Hampton Court Palace picture gallery, 1898 catalogue, No. 690.