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xv ADRIAEN VAN DE VELDE 547 315. Cows and Sheep at Pasture. On the right, near a fence, lie two cows and two sheep. Behind them a dark cow stands in profile to the left, with its white head turned towards the front. On the left stands an ass, seen in a three-quarter view facing to the right ; behind it to the right lies a goat. In the centre are two trees, with a leafless trunk to the left of them and a thatched barn behind it. Possibly genuine. A false signature ; panel, 14 inches by 17 inches. Sale. C. Sedelmeyer, Paris, May 25, 1907, No. 185 (1220 francs). 316. LANDSCAPE WITH CATTLE AND A HORSE DRINKING. Sm. 45, 88 (?), and Suppl. 26. An Italian landscape with ruins and a clump of trees to the left and far-away hills in the right distance. A herd of cattle with a herdsman ; a woman and a boy rest on the bank of a little stream. In front a horse is drinking ; to the right stands a sheep. Behind the horse to the left stands a goat, while to the right is a cow on which the herdsman leans. He converses with the woman, who sits on the ground to the right between a sheep lying down and a cow. [Sm. 88, in the Van der Pot sale, is a hunting scene similar to 154.] Signed ; canvas, i8 inches by 22 inches. Engraved in the Le Brun Gallery (Sm.). Sales. Nouri, Paris, February 24., 1795 (2100 francs). G. van der Pot, Rotterdam, June 6, 1808, No. 132 (3000 florins, Cremer). Th. Th. Cremer, Rotterdam, April 16, 1816, No. 117 (2070 florins, La Fontaine). In the collection of J. Norris, Red Vales, near Bury, 1842 (Sm.). Sales. Paul Perier, Paris, March 16, 1843. Casimir Perier, Paris, December 19, 1846. Baron Delessert, Paris, March 15, 1869, No. 95 (10,000 francs). Lemaitre, Paris, March 5, 1874, No. 47. George Field, London, June 10, 1893, No. 38. In the possession of the Paris dealer C. Sedelmeyer, "Catalogue of loo Paintings," 1894, No. 51. Sales. C. Sedelmeyer, Berlin, November 16, 1897, No. 55. C. Sedelmeyer, Paris, May 25, 1907, No. 186 (1400 francs). 317. THREE COWS AND SHEEP NEAR A CLUMP OF TREES. Sm. 38. In the foreground of a wooded landscape is a shady meadow. A red cow and a dun cow are lying down. A yellowish cow stands behind them. On a hill to the left are two horses near a clump of trees. On a bank to the right lies the herdsman asleep. In the bluish tone of the later works. Signed in full, and dated 1661 ; panel, 19^ inches by 16 inches. Exhibited at the Royal Academy Winter Exhibition, London, 1890, No. 107. Sale. Trouart, Paris, February 22, 1779 (3000 francs). In the collection of Alexander Baring, London, 1834 (Sm., who valued it at 300). In the collection of Lord Ashburton, The Grange, 1854 (Waagen, ii. 108) ; bought as a whole in 1907 by the London dealers Agnew and others.