viii PHILIPS WOUWERMAN 565 939. THE HAY- WAIN. Sm. 417 and Suppl. 196. In the centre, on a low hill a little way back, is a laden hay- wain with two horses seen from the back. In the centre foreground a man puts fodder before a grey and a bay horse who have been unharnessed and stand in profile to the right. A woman holds a little boy on the bay horse. To the left a boy rides on a big dog. To the right, on a river-bank, sits a woman with a child. In the river and on the bank, farther back, are bathers. A dog crosses a plank from the shore to the hay-boat. A picture of very good quality. " This picture was painted in the artist's later time; it is silvery in tone, full of colour and exquisitely finished " (Sm.). [Pendant to 84.] Signed on the left at foot with the full monogram; panel, 13^ inches by 1 6 inches. Mentioned by Waagen (iii. 47). Engraved in the Stafford Gallery, No. 99, by J. Scott. Sale. Amsterdam, June 26, 1799, No. 10 (2810 florins, Coders). In the collection of the Marquis of Stafford, 1829 (Sm.); and of Lord Francis Egerton, 1842 (Sm.). In the collection of the Earl of Ellesmere, Bridgewater House, London, No. 282. 940. A HAYFIELD IN HARVEST-TIME. Sm. 256 and Suppl. 94. In the left foreground is a canal with a laden boat half cut ofF by the frame, and a boy bathing. Close to the shore is a hay-wain. A man and a boy stand on it, and a woman and a man below throw up hay. Of the four horses one, a grey, is lying down. Tools are on the ground. Farther right are two sportsmen on foot; a beggar lying down asks an alms. In the distance labourers are making hay. Beyond is another hay-wain with two horses in profile to the left. A farm is seen amidst trees on the right. " This picture is painted in the artist's third manner, remarkably clear and silvery in tone and of the choicest quality" (Sm.). [Said to have been a pendant of 355.] Canvas, 25 1 inches by 30 inches. Mentioned by Buchanan, Memoirs of Painting, ii. 261; and by Waagen (ii. 19). An old copy is in the Dulwich College Gallery, London, 1892 catalogue, No. 1 8. Exhibited at the British Institution, London, 1826-27 > an d at the Royal Academy Winter Exhibition, London, 1877, No. 157. Sales. P. de Smeth van Alphen, Amsterdam, August I, 1810, No. 119 (4200 florins, Lafontaine). Lafontaine, London, June 12, 1811, No. 61 (1785 an artificial price, according to Sm.). In the Royal collection, Buckingham Palace, London, No. 57; it was in the Royal collection, 1829 (Sm., who valued it at jiooo). 941. HAY-HARVEST. Sm. 311. In the left foreground a woman sits with a child in her lap near a waggon with a grey horse in profile to the left. A man stands behind; a boy sits on the back. On a hill in the middle distance is a waggon, with the horse unharnessed to the
