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6io PHILIPS WOUWERMAN SECT. the stream flows between two sand-hills, and is crossed by a wooden bridge on which is a figure. There are other figures. Of the good and mature period. [Pendant to 1083.] Signed on the left at foot with the full monogram ; canvas, 30 inches by 26 inches. In the collection of Count Briihl. In the Hermitage Palace, St. Petersburg, 1901 catalogue, No. 1043; it was there in 1842 (Sm., who valued it at ^350). 1085. A DUTCH COAST SCENE WITH FIGURES. Sm. 370 and Suppl. 38. To the left is the surface of a river or lake with islands, illumined by the setting sun. In the right foreground a man on a grey horse rides over a stone bridge crossing a stream at which another rider waters his horse ; a third horseman halts near the bridge. In the middle distance is a farm. Beyond at the foot of a hill lies a town. A fine landscape of the beginning of the middle period. Signed on the right at foot with the early monogram ; panel, 12 inches by 15^ inches. Engraved by Cochin as " Vue de Hollande." In the Crozat collection, Paris. In the Hermitage Palace, St. Petersburg, 1901 catalogue, No. 1044; it was there in 1842 (Sm., who valued it at ji6o). 1086. LANDSCAPE WITH BATHERS. On the left two men bathe in a river, on which in the distance are vessels. On the bank to the right three peasants with a dog are resting. Behind the group two men undress. In the background is an old and almost leafless oak ; two figures are at the door of a country house on the edge of a wood. In the centre a man on a bay horse, who leads a grey horse by the bridle, rides into the stream. A picture of the transition to the mature period. Signed on the left at foot with the full monogram ; panel, inches by 16 inches. In the Galitzin collection. In the Hermitage Palace, St. Petersburg, 1901 catalogue, No. 1704. 1087. A DUNE LANDSCAPE WITH TRAVELLERS. In the centre is a grey horse in profile to the left. A fine early work. In the National Museum, Rome, No. 495. 1088. A DUNE LANDSCAPE. In the left foreground are two horsemen. One has dismounted to tie his boot-lace. A man on foot and a woman seated on the ground. A third horseman in red turns towards a cottage. A fourth comes down in the right foreground towards a water- fall. This is a view of the dunes near Haarlem, but the sand-hills are much too high. At foot and on the left the picture has been either entirely repainted or enlarged. Panel, n inches by 14 inches. In the collection of King Gustavus III. of Sweden, as a "landscape after Wouwerman." In the National Museum, Stockholm, 1900 catalogue, No. 716.