584 PHILIPS WOUWERMAN SECT. 56. A river with picturesque buildings on rocky cliffs on the left. In the right foreground men take bales from three pack-horses to a boat lying by the river-bank. A laden boat lies in mid-stream near some bathers. A fine sky. The cliffs and buildings on them are imaginary. A work of the artist's maturity. Canvas, 21 1 inches by 28 inches. In the collection of the Stadtholder (Sm.). In the collection of Willem Lormier, 1752 (Hoet, it. 446) ; he had bought it from Jaques de Roore (for 414 florins) ; in his store-room catalogue of December 1754, No. 335. Sale. Willem Lormier, The Hague, July 4, 1763 (Terw. 335), No. 322 (1610 florins, Fouquet for Captain W. Baillie for Sir James Lowther). In the collection of the Earl of Lonsdale, Lowther Castle, No. 86. 998. Unloading Bales at the Riverside. Men unload bales or goods from a boat at the riverside. To the left are horses with pack-saddles ; their drivers halt for a rest. In front is an angler with his feet in the water. In the distance is a hilly landscape. Signed on the left with the monogram; panel, 12 inches by 13^ inches. Sale. Madame Duval, Paris, November 28, 1904, No. 1 8 (3650 francs). In the possession of the Paris dealer F. Kleinberger. 999. A View of a Seaport. Sm. 226 and 437. On a hill in the left foreground is a grey horse harnessed to a sledge, from which two men unload a bale, while a boy looks on. Beyond is a loaded cart ; a man lets down a. package to another man. Farther left a man on a pack-horse rides down the hill with a dog at his side. On the right is a river with vessels lying at the bank. In front a boy in the water entices a dog to follow him. The dog near the horseman has been repainted, as the engraving shows. [Compare loooc, with which it may be identical.] Panel, 12 inches by 16 inches. Mentioned by Ch. Blanc, Le Tresor de la Curiosite, i. 61. Engraved by Danckerts. A copy, after the engraving, is in the Harrach collection, Vienna, 1897 collection, No. 345. Sales. President de Tugny et Crozat, Paris, 1751 (1230 francs, Cresscnt). Sir Simon Clarke, Bart., and G. Hibbert, London, May 14, 1802 . Jeremiah Harman, London, May 17, 1844 (.262 : los., Nieuwen- huys) ; it was in this collection in 1829 (Sm.). In the collection of Dr. Max Wassermann, Paris. 1000. A LADY AND GENTLEMAN HALTING AT A SEAPORT. Sm. 34 and Suppl. 12 ; M. 72. On the left is a seaport full of small vessels. A lady in yellow and blue and a gentleman in a red cloak halt on a bank near a dog and a page, who holds the bridle of a saddled grey horse. Another dog drinks at the water's edge. To the right, at the foot of a ruin overgrown with plants and adorned with the statue of a faun, soldiers and rustics rest amidst bales of goods ; some play
