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654 PAULUS POTTER SECT. 152*. A Grey Horse. With a red saddle-cloth, a dog, and a sleep- ing sportsman. Sale. Lord Northwick, Thirlestane House, Cheltenham, July 26, 1859 (17 : 175., Abrahams). 152^. Two Cows and a Horseman. With other figures in a sunny landscape. Signed in full, and dated 1644; canvas, 15^ inches by 18 inches. In the Mestern collection, Hamburg, i864(?) (Parthey, ii. 286). 152*:. Horsemen in a Landscape. Signed ; panel, 16 inches by 14 inches. Sale. H. Rochussen and others, Rotterdam, November 3, 1869, No. 126. 152^. Two Horsemen. And a man with a bundle asleep in a landscape. Signed ; panel, 13^ inches by 15 inches. Sale. J. C. C. D. W. de Mol, W. J. M. Engelberts, and others, Amsterdam, April 28, 1875, No. 39. 153. Landscape with a Horse- Race. Sm. 20 ; W. ii. 4. Many figures. Sale. Benjamin da Costa, The Hague, 1754, according to Sm. ; but not in the sale-catalogue. 154. THE FARRIER'S SHOP. Sm. 63 ; W. ii. 22. To the left is a farrier's shop. Through the open door a man is seen working at the anvil. Farther to the right, under a little roof in front of the shop, stands a horse in profile to the right ; the farrier, standing at its head, is about to draw a tooth ; the owner stands behind him, holding the horse's mouth open. On the right, beside them, a boy is looking on. Farther away is a grey horse, seen from the back in a three-quarter view. In the right foreground and in the middle distance a cock and a hen are pecking at the ground. In the right distance children play near six trees in front of a cottage. [Related to 156 (Elkins).] Signed in full, and dated 1648 ; panel, i8| inches by 17 J inches. Sales. Ghent, September 28, 1777, No. 49. The widow of J. Ph. de Monte, Rotterdam, July 4, 1825, No. I (7100 florins, F. Lamrae). In the possession of L. J. Nieuwenhuys, who sold it to the Comte de Perregaux Lafitte, who owned it in 1834 (Sm.). Sale. Comte de Perregaux, Paris, December 8, 1841, No. 26 (15,000 francs, George) see Ch. Blanc, ii. 448. In the collection of Madame Autran, Marseilles. In the possession of the Paris dealer C. Sedelmeyer, " Catalogue of 300 Paintings," 1898, No. 1 08. In the collection of Rodolphe Kann, Paris. In the possession of the dealers Duveen Brothers, Paris. 155. HORSES TETHERED AT A COTTAGE-DOOR. Sm. 94 ; W. 60. Two cart-horses stand at a trough on the left near a cottage. One is a grey and the other a bay. A man brings them a pail