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vin PHILIPS WOUWERMAN 601 Signed on the left at foot with the full monogram ; panel, 9 inches by 1 1 inches. Note. The "View over a Barren Heath with Horses and Figures," which Sm. mentions (Sm. 457), without giving material or size, as being also at Amsterdam, can no longer be traced there. It cannot be identical with 1045, which did not come to the Rijksmuseum till 1885. In the National Museum, The Hague, till 1808. In the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, 1907 catalogue, No. 2711. 1045. LANDSCAPE WITH PEASANTS FORDING A RIVER. Sm. Suppl. 45. On the left through a hilly and sandy land- scape runs a rugged road ; a cottage with an arbour in front is on the left. Near two trees on the roadside in front sits a woman with a child in her arms ; she converses with a man standing to the right. Behind them are other figures on the road. In the centre the ground falls steeply to a flat valley with a placid stream on the right. Numerous figures with horses and carts wade through the water ; there are a man on a brown horse with a woman behind him, a traveller fastening a package on a grey horse, a man with a bundle on his back, and a man and woman followed by a dog. At the back is a range of hills. " This beautiful picture was painted in the artist's third period, or silvery manner" (Sm.). Signed on the left at foot with the full monogram ; canvas, 24^ inches by 32 inches. Exhibited for private sale in the collection of the Duchesse de Berry, London, 1834 (bought by Van der Hoop for ^560, according to Sm.). The Amsterdam catalogue wrongly states that it was bought at the Berry sale, Paris, 1837- In the Van der Hoop collection, Amsterdam ; bequeathed to the Rijks- museum, 1885. In the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, Van der Hoop bequest, 1907 catalogue, No. 2719. 1046. LANDSCAPE WITH FIGURES. A weir, near which is a man in red on a grey horse. A traveller rests ; a man stands fishing. An early work. Dark but genuine, though described in the catalogue as " in the manner of Ph. Wouwerman." Panel, 12 inches by 9^ inches. Sale. Bleuland, Utrecht, May 6, 1839, No. 413. In the collection of W. Burckhardt-Forcart, who bequeathed it to the Museum. In the Basel Museum, 1908 catalogue, No. 651. 1047. A HILLY LANDSCAPE. With small figures. To the right is a stream. In front is a man with a grey horse. On the other side are wayfarers and a man on a bay horse. On the left are a cottage and a hay-rick. Panel, 10 inches by 8 inches. Exhibited at Berlin, 1906, No. 154. In the collection of Oscar Huldschinsky, Berlin.