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viii PHILIPS WOUWERMAN 57 1 959^7. A Waggon being loaded with Corn. In a landscape. Canvas, 19^ inches by 16 inches. Sale. Widow of J. H. Telting, born A. M. Jutting, Amsterdam, October 23, 1824, No. 23 (45 florins, Gruyter). 959^. Corn-Harvest. Sale. Lord Radstock, London, May 12, 1826 (119 : 145.). 960. A Hayfield. Sm. 427. Mowers at work. The chief group consists of two men, one of whom drinks out of a pitcher. In front are a woman and child. To the right a grey horse grazes and a dark horse is lying down near a pool. Panel, n inches by 13 inches. In the Louvre, Paris, 1829 (Sm., who says that the experts valued it in 1816 at 6000 francs). But the size and description do not tally with those of the Louvre picture (944). 961. The Hay-Cart. Sm. Suppl. 206. A peasant in a hay-cart, the horses of which have been taken out, puts up hay to a man on a high rick. Nearer the front a labourer fills a barrow with fodder, which a brown horse is eating, while a grey horse browses on the grass. Near them is an old cottage, in front of which sits a woman with a child in her arms ; a boy near her plays with a dog. On the other side a youth crosses a plank over a brook, beyond which are harvesters at work. " An excellent little picture" (Sm.). Panel, 13 inches by 16 inches. Sale. John Maitland, London, July 30, 1831 (267 : 153., Woodburn). 962. View over an Open Country during Harvest. Sm. Suppl. 207. A cavalier on a brown horse has his back to the spectator. A beggar with a wooden leg is with a woman. A cavalier stands beside a grey horse. A man carries a hoop of hawks. Two monks, with a third cavalier on a bay horse. Harvesters are resting or at work in the field. A laden waggon with four horses. A passing cloud promises rain. Canvas, 15 inches by 2i| inches. Bought of Heris, Brussels, by Sm. in 1829. Sale. George Morant, London, 1832 (152 : 5s.). 9620. The Reapers. A fine picture. Sale. Brussels, August I, 1842, No. 113. 963. Harvesters at their Repast. Sm. 101 and Suppl. 268. In the foreground two peasants and two women eat their dinner. One man on his knees drinks from an earthenware jug. Another man lying beside him converses with a woman who sits a little to the left nursing a child. Behind her are a boy and a woman standing. On the ground lie a loaf and other articles. To the left of this group is a grey horse, unharnessed, in profile to the right ; behind it lies an ass. In front is a brook. In the middle distance a reaper gathers up the hay. Another man, near two horses, holds up some on his fork to a boy in a rude shed.