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5 66 PHILIPS WOUWERMAN SECT. right ; two men load the waggon with hay. On the right at the foot of the hill two boys enter a boat to go fishing. " A picture of estimable quality" (Sm.). Signed with the full monogram ; panel, 16 inches by 14 inches. Mentioned by Waagen (ii. 343). Sale,]. Van Bergen van der Grijp and others, Soeterwoude, June 25, 1784, No. 134 (1225 florins, Fouquet). In the Dulwich College Gallery, London, 1892 catalogue, No. 182 (Sm. valued it in 1829 at 262 : ios.). 942. PEASANTS RETURNING HOME WITH HAR- VEST WAGGONS. Sm. 320. To the left, on the bank of a navigable river are two laden waggons. A dark horse is harnessed to the nearer one ; a peasant sits on its back conversing with another man who stands behind an unharnessed piebald horse facing right. A boy sits on top of the load. Near the river-bank in the middle distance is a boat with two figures. [Pendant to 943.] " Both these pictures are of very good quality" (Sm.). Signed on the left at foot with the full monogram ; panel, n inches by 14 inches. In the Zweibrtlcken Gallery. In the Aeltere Pinakothek, Munich, 1904 catalogue, No. 500 ; it was there in 1829 (Sm.). 943. A PEASANT WATERING HIS HORSES ON THE WAY HOME. Sm. 321. A stream flows from the centre to the front, where it branches. On the right a peasant on a dark horse is in the centre ; to the right of it a grey horse drinks ; both are in profile to the left. Behind, on the field, is a loaded waggon on which sits a woman with a child in her arms. In the middle distance is a bridge. A man sits fishing and a peasant stands on the bridge. In front are two bathers. A good picture of the middle period. [Pendant to 942.] Signed on the right at foot with the full monogram j panel, ii inches by 14 inches. In the ZweibrUcken Gallery. In the Aeltere Pinakothek, Munich, 1904 catalogue, No. 502 ; it was there in 1829 (Sm., who valued it at ^420). 944. PEASANTS LEADING A HAY-WAIN. To the left, on the bank of a river which is only partly seen, is a hay-wain with two horses in profile. A woman sits on the top. A man rides the second horse, a bay ; the leader is a grey piebald. In the centre is a mounted peasant, facing the spectator, with a dog. To the right is a sheet of water into which a man drops hay ; another man in a red coat, with a basket, is in a boat. On the bank kneels a woman with a child. In the distance, at the end of a wall, is a round tower with scaffolding. Attri- buted in the old inventories to Pieter Wouwerman. Panel, 14 inches by 16 inches. Probably acquired at the Revolution. In the Louvre, Paris, 1902 catalogue, No. 2633.