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656 PAULUS POTTER SECT. the front. In it two old draught horses, a bay and a grey, stand at the manger. Between them is a hen. In the open to the left, where various potsherds are strewn about, two pigs lie asleep side by side. Behind them to the left are two hens and a crowing cock. To the right of the cock a man squats on the ground. A dog, coming from the stable in the right foreground, barks at him. Behind the stable to the right are a tree and the gable of a house. To the left is a distant view, with towns and trees on the horizon. " Brilliantly coloured and well finished" (Sm.). Signed in full above the horses, and dated 1651 ; panel, 14 inches by 15! inches. In the Schloss, Schwerin, 1792 catalogue, p. 42, J. I. 31. In the Schloss, Ludwigslust, 1821 catalogue, No. 36 ; it was there in 1834 (Sm.). In the Schwerin Museum, 1882 catalogue, No. 842. 157*7. Horsemen halting at a Cottage. Sale. London, 1790 (210, Tassaert). 158. Horsemen in front of a Stable. See Sm. 25. Dated 1643. Sale. London, 1818 (126). 158^. Cattle and Figures in front of a Stable. In front lie a cow and a dog. Beyond are an ass, a man, and a woman. Canvas. Sale. Amsterdam, December 3, 1827, No. 46 (155 florins, Campen). 158^. A Man holding his Horse by the Bridle. Panel, 6| inches by 7 inches. Sale. Comte F. de Robiano, Brussels, May I, 1837, No. 529. 159. Two Horses outside a House. In a shed adjoining a cottage stands a bay horse, seen from the back, which is harnessed to a waggon. A reddish-brown horse faces the spectator. A vine, on which the sunlight falls, covers the wall. An old man leans on the lower half-door of the house. On the left a dog turns towards the wooded distance. Beside the cart lies a pig. Signed in full on the roof-beam ; panel, 9 inches by 9^ inches. Sales. Ph. van der Land, Amsterdam, May 22, 1776, No. 72 (465 florins). Baron H. von Mecklenburg, Paris, March 12, 1870, No. 32 (4350 francs). 160. THE BEAR-HUNT. Sm. 2 ; W. 3. In the centre a bear attacked by dogs stands up on his hind-legs and defends himself against them. He has seized one dog with his left fore-paw, and holds him up to crush him. Another dog lies beneath him. The bear breaks the spine of a third dog, to the left, with his other paw, as the dog turns his head and bites the bear's leg. On the ground to the right a wounded dog lies on his back, twisting in agony. A fifth dog rushes forward from the right back- ground. Still farther away is a thick tree-trunk, up which another bear is climbing ; a dog springs at him. There are three huntsmen. One man,