296 PHILIPS WOUWERMAN SECT. his grey horse to be shod. Another horseman halts near him. On the ladder a man stands tending a vine. To the left a man lies by the roadside. Signed in the left-hand bottom corner with the full monogram ; canvas, 26 inches by 20 inches. Engraved by Moyreau, No. 59, as "La Grotte du Marechal." Acquired for Dresden through Le Leu of Paris, 1749. In Guarienti's inventory, before 1753, No. 1561. In the Royal Picture Gallery, Dresden, 1905 catalogue, No. 1446. 127. THE FARRIER. Two horsemen with a pack-horse halt before an untidy tavern, the side wall of which abuts on a hill covered with leafless trees, while the ground floor serves as a barn. A man is tightening the saddle-girths of the pack-horse. One traveller converses with the farrier, who examines his grey horse's near hind-hoof; the horse stands, without a saddle, facing left in the centre of the foreground, and is held by a man. The saddle and two holsters lie on the ground. The second traveller sits on horseback listening to the conversation. On the extreme right a boy is teasing a dog. Behind him at the house door a groom is engaged with two horses. To the left, beside the road, which leads past a placid stream into the open country, a beggar family are resting in a meadow. Farther back at a turn in the road a horseman is riding away. Signed in the left-hand bottom corner with the full monogram ; canvas, 19^ inches by 23^ inches. Purchased from Georg Finger des Raths, 1849. In the Stadel'sches Kunstinstitut, Frankfort-on-Main, 1900 catalogue, No. 311- 128. THE HORSE-SHOEING. In the foreground a farrier in a red cap is shoeing the near fore-foot of a white horse, which is held by a man ; the horse is seen from the back, foreshortened. To the right of the horse are two dogs. At the back are buildings ; two horses are under a dark archway to the left, above which is a house ; two figures stand near a lower door to the right. Foreground in shadow. Panel, 12 inches by 9 inches. In the collection of John Graham-Gilbert, Glasgow ; bequeathed to the city in 1877. In the Glasgow Art Gallery, 1908 catalogue, No. 1107 (old No. 548). 129. THE FARRIER. Sm. Suppl. 145. At the door of a house on the left sits a woman with a child in her arms. In front, a man holds a restive grey horse which has nearly upset the farrier. A woman lifts a crying child from the horse's back. Two horsemen have halted ; one has dismounted from his brown horse to caress a woman who has a basket on her arm and a child at her side ; the other man is drinking. By a river to the right is an angler. An early work. Panel, 14^ inches by 19 inches. In the collection of Earl Beverley, 1 842 (Sm.) ; purchased with the collection by Sm., 1851. In the collection of Sir Thomas Baring. In the collection of Sir Audley Neeld, Grittleton House.
