338 PHILIPS WOUWERMAN SECT. horsemen have halted on the right in front of an inn, at the half-opened door of which is a man with a child. One has dismounted from his grey horse and converses with a woman seated on the ground. To the left is a distant view. In the middle distance is a horseman. Modern, according to Van den Burgh. Signed on the left at foot with the monogram ; panel, i6 inches by 15 inches. Sale. Freiherr von MUnchhausen, F. Reichardt, J. P. Weyer, and others, Cologne, October 28, 1887, No. 160 (700 marks, Kohlbacher). 284. HORSES BEFORE A COTTAGE AND A WOMAN SPINNING. In the centre foreground a man holds a grey horse in profile to the right. He converses with a peasant woman, who sits on the right with her dog and holds a distaff. To the left, behind the grey, stands a brown horse, saddled, with its head turned away ; beside it is a man in a broad-brimmed hat. Farther back, up a flight of steps where are some hens, a child is going to his mother, who stands at the cottage door. In the right middle distance a man in a brown jacket with red sleeves comes riding on a mule. Sunset. Panel, i6 inches by 15 inches. In the collection of Jacob de Hirsch, 1878. Sales. Baronne de H(irsch), Paris, June 17, 1904. C. Sedelmeyer, Paris, May 25, 1907, No. 216 (3000 francs). 285. A SPORTSMAN FLIRTING WITH A MILKMAID. Sm. 458, and Suppl. 218. A sportsman has dismounted to caress a young girl who kneels to the left milking a goat. His grey horse with a red saddle is held by a page in yellow, whose back is to the spectator. To the right, on the edge of a clear stream, is a barking dog. In the right middle distance two horsemen ride away. In the left distance is a hill with buildings and tall trees. A shepherd with his flock and three figures. " An excellent picture, painted in the artist's second manner " (Sm.). [Compare 289.] Signed on the right at foot with the full monogram ; panel, 14 inches by 14 inches. In the Van Saceghem collection, Ghent, 1829 (Sm.). Sale. Van Saceghem of Ghent, Brussels, June 2, 1851, No. 83 (7600 francs, Le Roy). In the Brussels Museum, 1906 catalogue, No. 525. 286. TWO MILKMAIDS CONVERSING WITH A HORSEMAN. Sm. Suppl. 51. On a grey horse in profile to the left sit a countryman and a woman whose back is to the spectator. The man converses with two countrywomen standing to the left. One, facing the spectator, carries two milk-pails on a yoke ; the other has a brass can slung at her back. In the foreground, at the edge of a stream, is a dog. In the right middle distance, at the foot of a tree on a bank, sits a peasant with a basket ; he points with his right hand to the distance. On the extreme right a man going away with a pack-ass is partly visible.
