I42 AELBERT CUYP SECT. dogs. On the left and nearer the front is a flock of sheep and goats with the sheep dog; the shepherd, seen from the back in three-quarter view, leans on his stick and watches the riders. On the road, in the middle distance, is a countryman ; still farther back a herdsman drives his cows to a town on a river in the far distance. The principal group is repeated in a picture in the Maurice Kann collection (415). Signed in the left, " A. Cuyp " ; canvas, 42 inches by 33 inches. In the collection of Murann H. H. Eichmann, Leyden. In the collection of Madame A. Gijsberti Hodenpijl, Leyden, 1872. In the collection of Prince DemidofF, San Donate. In the possession of the Paris dealer C. Sedelmeyer, "Catalogue of 300 Paintings," 1898, No. 13. Sale. P. C. Hanford of Chicago, New York, January 30, 1902, No. 58 (4600 dollars). 462*. Herdsman on Horseback. With three cows and two sheep near a river. 29 inches by 27 inches. Sale. Berkeley Sheffield and others, London, April 28, 1902, No. 88. 462^. Horseman, Figures, and Cattle. 17^ inches by 31 inches. Sale. London, January 14, 1905, No. 139. 462^. Horseman, Peasants, and Cattle on a River-Bank. 34 inches by 40 inches. Sale. J. G. Menzies and others, London, February 25, 1905, No. 49. 462^. Landscape. On a high bank, near a river seen to the right, are cattle. The herdsman converses with a woman seated on the ground. On the left, between two high trees, a man comes riding on a donkey with panniers. Behind the river is a town ; in the distance are hills. Panel, 17 inches by 25 inches. Exhibited at the Royal Academy Winter Exhibition, London, 1907, No. 55 ; by an anonymous owner. 463. TRAVELLERS IN A HILLY LANDSCAPE, WITH A RIVER. In the foreground, on a road leading from a bushy river- side to the high river-bank, a man in a red coat leads two heavily laden mules. On the front mule sits a woman with her back to the spectator. Farther down the road is another man, who is using his stick to drive a mule carrying tubs. They are going from left to right. On the farther side of the river the ground slopes up gently ; there are houses. In the distance is a rosy-tinted range of hills with a ruined castle. Morning. An almost similar picture is in the collection of A. Wertheimer (465). [Compare 471^.] Signed, in the left-hand bottom corner, A. Cuijp j panel, 18 inches by 29 inches. In the Mestern collection, Hamburg. In the collection of Dr. August Fischer, Breslau. In the Breslau Museum, Fischer bequest, No. 334.
