258 PHILIPS WOUWERMAN SECT. rather hard, belongs to the transition from the early to the middle period, though it bears the later monogram. Signed in the right-hand bottom corner with the full monogram ; canvas, 27 inches by 34^ inches. Engraved by Moyreau, No. 29, 1738. In the Blondy collection, Paris, 1738. Sale. Izaak Hoogenbergh, Amsterdam, April 10, 1743 (Hoet, ii. 81), No. 1 1 (600 florins). In the Dresden inventory made by Guarienti, before 1753, No. 1701. In the Royal Picture Gallery, Dresden, 1905, catalogue, No. 1416. (Sm. in 1829 valued it at 400). 7. John the Baptist preaching. Many figures and some horses. 42 inches by 39 inches. S a k. Amsterdam, October 21, 1739 (Hoet, i. 610), No. 23 (552 florins). 8. The Nativity. Sale. Jacob Cromhout and Jasper Loskart, Amsterdam, May 7, 1709 (Hoet, i. 132), No. 5 (170 florins). 9. The Angel appearing to the Shepherds. Sm. 24 (?). In the centre are two horses, one of them a grey, and an ass lying down. To the right the shepherds are grouped at the foot of three leafless trees. One man hides his face from the glory surrounding the angel who appears in the clouds. This is quite a good picture but scarcely good enough for an original by Wouwerman. In the Naples Museum, 1901 catalogue, No. 14, there is a second version, the authenticity of which is also uncertain. [Possibly a copy of iftf.] Signed in the left-hand bottom corner with the monogram ; panel, 16 inches by 13^ inches. Mentioned by Ch. Blanc, Le Tresor de la Curiosite", i. 100. According to the Aix catalogue, it was in the sale of the Comte de Vence ; but his picture is more probably l$a. Bequeathed with other pictures by Jean Baptiste-Marie de Bourguignon de Fabregoules, 1863. In the Aix Museum, 1900 catalogue, No. 391. 10. THE ANGEL APPEARING TO THE SHEPHERDS. To the left, above a tent which shelters a shepherd family, appears the angel announcing the Nativity. To the right are the shepherds on the pasture. An old shepherd, amidst his sheep, stretches out his arms towards the vision. In the foreground is a white horse. This is a genuine work of the master's early period. Panel, 13^ inches by 15 inches. Mentioned by W. von Seidlitz, Repertorium, xvi. 379. Engraved in aquatint by C. A. Witzani. In Cotter's Dresden inventory, according to Hdbner. Its old inventory number, 3118, shows that it was among the pictures acquired by Riedel at Prague in 1742. In the Royal Picture Gallery, Dresden, 1905 catalogue, No. 1411.
