Page:Hofstede de Groot catalogue raisonné, Volume 2, 1909.djvu/296

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2 8o PHILIPS WOUWERMAN SECT. To the right, under trees with scanty foliage, on a low hill, are an old man and a woman with a child at her breast. In the foreground a peasant leads a grey horse to the watering-place on the left. An early work. [Probably identical with 100.] Signed in the left-hand bottom corner with the full monogram ; panel, 13 inches by io inches. A copy is in the Gotha Museum, 1890 catalogue, No. 198. Engraved in aquatint by C. A. Witzani. Sale. (Probably) P. Calkoen, Amsterdam, September 10, 1781, No. 160 (21 florins, Coders). Probably in Cotter's Dresden inventory, No. 51. Brought out of the store-room into the gallery, 1851. In the Royal Picture Gallery, Dresden, 1905 catalogue, No. 1455. 79. HORSES IN THE WATER NEAR TREES. A small picture. In the collection of Emil Goldschmidt, junior, Frankfort-on-Main. 80. HORSES WATERING. To the right are high hills. In the foreground are eight horses. To the left, near a boat, people are bathing. An early work. Signed in the right centre with the full monogram. In the collection of Sir Hickman Bacon, Gainsborough. 81. HORSES WATERING. In the foreground is a rider on a grey horse in profile to the right. He lets his horse drink in the stream, while he leads a brown horse, seen from the back. Two men are swimming in the water. Farther back to the right are two boats, one of them loaded with hay ; beyond them is a village. On the bank to the left is an old and almost leafless willow ; a woman with a basket on her arm and a boy are walking past it. Behind the willow the ground rises to a hill which falls away gradually on the right. A sky with stormy clouds at twilight. Signed in the left-hand bottom corner with the full monogram ; panel, 12 inches by 15 inches. In the collections of Nicolaus Hudtwalker, Hamburg, and of Johann Wesselhoeft, Hamburg. In the Kunsthalle, Hamburg, Wesselhoeft's 1889 catalogue, p. 13. 82. THE WATERING-PLACE (or, The Restive Led Horse). Sm. Suppl. 40. A boy on a brown horse, facing the spectator, rides into a stream. He looks round at a white horse which he is leading by the reins ; it rears and refuses to follow. To the right, farther back, are two children. A little girl wades into the water ; an older boy stands on the bank with a fishing rod. In the right background is a building. [Pendant to 170, also in the Moltke collection.] Signed with the monogram ; panel, 12^ inches by 14 inches. See note to 170, in the same collection. In the collection of Count Moltke, Copenhagen, 1885 catalogue, No. 87 ; it was there in 1842 (Sm.).