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xvi PAULUS POTTER 629 Sm. 37 ; W. 32. A row of willows extends diagonally across the picture. In front on the extreme left are two sheep. In the centre lie two cows. To the right, farther back, stands a dark cow in profile to the right ; behind it lies a light-coloured cow. Farther to the right a girl milks a light-coloured cow, seen in a three-quarter view from the back, which is grazing ; an old man stands near, conversing with the girl. In the right foreground lies a bull in profile to the right ; beside it to the left is a sheep. In the right middle distance, at the end of the row of the willows, is a farm in an enclosure. In the centre, between two willows, are a man and a lady who shields her face with her fan from the sun. Beyond is a flat pasture with numerous cattle. In the distance is the castle of Bink- horst near The Hague. Afternoon sunlight. A "superlative production" (Sm.). [Compare 103, 106, and 114.] Signed in full on the left at foot, and dated 1647 > panel, 15^ inches by 1 8^ inches. Engraved by P. J. Arendzen. A copy by A. Carree is in the Schwerin Museum, 1882 catalogue, No. 139. A second copy was at a sale : Amsterdam, April 25, 1911, No. 89. A third copy is in the Stroganoff collection, St. Petersburg. A fourth copy was at the Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, 1904, No. 306, from the collection of C. T. Harris. A drawing of part of the picture, made from the picture, is in a London private collection, and is reproduced in Paul Potter by Emile Michel, p. 29. Another drawing of the same kind is at the Albertina, Vienna. In the collection of J. van der Linden van Slingeland, Dordrecht, 1752 (Hoet, ii. 490). Sales, J. van der Linden van Slingeland, Dordrecht, August 22, 1785, No. 315 (8010 florins, Hoogstraaten). Claude Tolozan, Paris, February 23, 1801 (27,050 francs) see Ch. Blanc, ii. 188. In the Crawford collection, Rotterdam ; said to have been bought from Stafford (for I 3,000 florins) according to a note on a drawing in the sale : Van Hoorn, Amsterdam, November 13, 1894, No. 948. Sale. London, April 26, 1806 (^1552 : ios., Campbell) ; afterwards sold to the Marquess of Westminster, who owned it in 1834, for rather less than the 1806 sale-price (Sm.). In the collection of the Duke of Westminster, London, 1888 catalogue, No. 35. 95. THE YOUNG MILKMAID. Sm. Suppl. i ; W. 96. Near a cottage on the right a young woman in a red jacket milks a cow, seen from the back. Beside her stands a man who rests his right hand on the cow's back. On the other side stands a second cow in profile to the right. Between the two cows is seen a third lying down. In the distance, near a shed, are a tree and bushes. Morning sunlight. A good picture, but not of first-rate quality. Signed in full on a board lying in the centre foreground, and dated 1651 ; panel, 20 inches by 14^ inches. In the Crozat collection, Paris. In the Hermitage Palace, St. Petersburg, 1901 catalogue, No. 1054 ; it was there in 1842 (Sm., who valued it at 420).