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49 8 ADRIAEN VAN DE VELDE SECT. Canvas, 12 inches by 15^ inches. Exhibited at Manchester, 1857, No. 769. Safe. De Calviere of Avignon, Paris, May 5, 1779. Dubois, Paris, December 7, 1840 (8010 francs). In the collection of Joseph Sanders, Taplow House, Maidenhead, 1857 (Waagen, Suppl. 292). Sales. J. M. Oppenheim, London, 1864 (451 : ios., Webb). Lady Page Turner and others, London, February 21, 1903, No. 29 (367 : IOS -> Agnew). 138. RESTING. Sm. 124. On the left is a high dark cliff with trees. In front of it, half in shadow, is an antique monument, with the pedestal decorated in relief and a sort of capital. To the left, a herdsman with a stick leans against it. In front sits a woman with a child at her breast. On the left, beside the herdsman, is a mule. In the left fore- ground, in full sunlight, lie some sheep ; two kids are playing. On the right, in sunlight, stands a grey horse, seen from the back ; two cows are lying down, with several sheep. Beyond is rolling country with clumps of trees and an old wall in the distance. Ranges of hills on the horizon. Masses of light clouds in the sky. A very fine distance. A fine evening. " A production of the highest excellence " (Sm.). Signed in full in trie left centre, and dated 1664; canvas on panel, i6 inches by 20 inches. A copy in reverse was in the sale : Freiherr von Miinchhausen and others, Cologne, October 28, 1887, No. 150. Exhibited in the Six Exhibition, 1900, No. 148. Sales. H. Verschuuring, The Hague, September 17, 1770, No. 183 ; in the collection in 1752 (Hoet, ii. 473). J. Rendorp, Amsterdam, October 1 6, 1793, No. 59 (850 florins, Everwijn or W. Eberlein). In the Van Winter collection, Amsterdam. In the collection of Six van Hillegom, Amsterdam, 1834 (Sm.). In the collection of J. Six, Amsterdam. In the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, 1910 catalogue, No. 2444*7; bought in 1907-8 by the Dutch Government from the Six collection (with thirty-eight other pictures for ^62,500). 139. FEMALE PEASANT WITH CATTLE. In the left middle distance a woman, in a blue skirt, red bodice, and white kerchief with her head bare, sits suckling her child. Behind and to the left of her is a stone fountain, at the foot of which, in shadow, lies a dog. To the right are two cows. The nearer one, of a warm reddish-brown colour with a white face, comes forward through a stream which flows across the front. Behind it is a greyish-brown cow in profile to the right. In the left foreground three sheep lie together on the farther bank of the stream. To right and left are tall and slender trees. In the centre is a view of hilly distance. Blue sky with a few light clouds in the centre. The figures and the cattle are in full sunlight. Good, but not specially important. Signed in full, and dated 1669 ; canvas, 9^ inches by 8| inches.