4 i2 PHILIPS WOUWERMAN SECT. 522. Interior of a Stable. Sm. 291 and Suppl. 108. In a very spacious stable, through the doorway of which on the left is seen the open country, two travellers with their horses are about to depart. One has mounted a fine white horse j a groom adjusts his stirrups. The other holds his bay horse's bridle. At the back a groom ties two newly-arrived horses to the rack. In front play two children ; one stands on a little cart drawn by a dog. A third child is at the door, where two men are watching a cock-fight. In the open are a cavalier and a lady on horse- back, of whom a beggar asks an alms. " This is of the most estimable quality " (Sm.). Panel, inches by 19^ inches. Engraved in the gallery of Lucien Buonaparte. In the collection of Lucien Bonaparte, 1816. In the collection of Jeremiah Harman, London, who bought it privately and gave it in exchange to the dealer Emmerson. Sold by Sm. to the Chevalier Sebastien Erard, 1826 (12,000 francs). Sales. Chevalier Sebastien Erard, Paris, April 23, 1832, No. 176 (10,020 francs). W. Williams Hope, London, June 14, 1849 (367 : IDS.). Due de Morny, Paris, May 31, 1865, No. 88 (25,100 francs). Buckley and others, London, May 4, 1901, No. 47. 5220. Interior of a Stable. With horses and peasants. Panel, 9 inches by io inches. Sale. James Orrock, London, June 4, 1904, No. 323. 522^. A Stable. With riders and horses. 2O inches by 26 inches. Sale. S. Gist, London, December 3, 1904, No. 23. 522^. A Stable. With figures and horses. Panel, 14 inches by 19 inches. Sale. London, July 20, 1906, No. ni. 522^. Horses being fed. Canvas, u inches by 16 inches. Sale. Frankfort-on-Main, December 18, 1906, No. 146. 523. A GREY HORSE IN A STABLE. In a stable, with a door in the left background leading into the open, a man grooms a grey horse which stands almost in profile to the left. In shadow to the right is another horse at a manger. Signed on the left at foot with the monogram ; panel, 8 inches by 9^ inches. Sale. Ch. Sedelmeyer, Paris, May 15, 1907, No. 212 (3050 francs). 524. A SPORTING PARTY HALTING AT A FOUN- TAIN. Sm. 512 and Suppl. 250. In the left foreground under trees is a fountain. A cavalier in a red coat on a bay horse, with his back to the spectator, lets the animal drink. On the other side a cavalier
