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xv ADRIAEN VAN DE VELDE 519 Signed "A. V. Velde f," and dated 1663; panel, 12 inches by 16 inches. In the collection of Count SchOnborn, Pommersfelden, 1845 or 1857 (Parthey, ii. 704) No. 517 in the 1857 catalogue. Sale. Count Schonborn, Paris, May 17, 1867, No. 120 (40,000 francs). In the Wallace Collection, London, 1910 catalogue, No. 199. 219. LANDSCAPE WITH CATTLE. In the right foreground, in sunlight, a bull stands in a three-quarter view, facing towards the left distance. To the left of him lie a cow and a sheep. In front of a thatched barn in the left middle distance a cow is grazing ; it faces to the right with its head turned away. Another cow lies facing the spectator. Be- hind the barn are tall trees, with low bushes to the right, over which is seen a range of hills in the distance. A broad picture. Exhibited at the Rembrandt Exhibition, Montreal, 1906, No. 34. In the collection of Sir William C. Van Home, Montreal. 220. LANDSCAPE WITH ANIMALS. On the right stand two horses ; another horse is lying down on the left. A cow lying down, a goat, and a sheep. Very dark. Panel, a small picture. From an old chateau in Normandy. In the collection of Thomas J. Bryan, New York. In the collection of the New York Historical Society, Bryan bequest, 1903 catalogue, No. 362. 221. LANDSCAPE AND ANIMALS. Sm. 21. A herdsman and a woman drive cattle forward. The road forks in front, and is bounded to the left by a high wall. Farther away is an Italian inn, built on to an old aqueduct. Outside the inn peasants sit in an arbour. To the right, in front of it, stands a large tree. A waggon with two horses comes down a hill. Beyond is a hilly landscape. Very fine lighting, but somewhat brown in tone. Signed in full on the wall to the left, and dated 1661 ; panel, 8 inches by ii inches. Engraved by Filhol and Landon, in the Musee Franfais. Sales. Gerard Braamcamp, Amsterdam, July 31, 1771, No. 241 (345 florins, P. Yver). R. Ansell, London, 1772 (30). In the Louvre, Paris, 1903 catalogue, No. 2594; it was valued by the experts in 1816 (at 120). 222. LANDSCAPE AND ANIMALS. Sm. n. On the left is a cottage amid trees with a fence round it. At the door are two herds- men. One of them, who sits on the fence, looks at a woman lying asleep at the foot of a tree. In front lie two cows. The nearer one is light red with a white face ; the other, which is blackish-brown, has laid her head on the first cow's back. Near them lie a sheep and two lambs. Farther to the right is a third cow. A goat is near a tree-trunk on the left. The picture reminds one strongly of Dirck van Bergen. As com-