xv ADRIAEN VAN DE VELDE 509 173*7 and b. Two Landscapes with Figures. Sale. W. Six, Amsterdam, May 12, 1734, No. 159. 173^. Landscape with Figures. 7 inches by 5^ inches. Sale. Pieter Testas, Amsterdam, March 29, 1757 (Tervv. 177), No. 20 (102 florins, with another picture by the master). 173^. Landscape with Figures and Animals. Very well painted. In the Honsholredijk inventory, 1764, No. 234 (1758, No. 239). 174. Landscape with Figures. Sm. 64. A woman, and an old man lying asleep on the ground. [Pendant to 144.] Panel, 9 inches by 8 inches. Sale. Destouches, Paris, March 21, 1794 (60 1 francs, with pendant). 174*7. Landscape with Figures. Sale. London, 1810 (^126, Llewellyn). 175. Landscape with Figures on a High Road. Sm. 93. Sale. Due d'Alberg, London, 1817 (262 : ios.). 175*7. An Artist among Ruins. Through an arcade is a view of a fine landscape traversed by a river. Nearer the front, in the centre, rises a gable held together by beams, which adjoins the left side of the arcade. Beyond it is a ruined wall. On the ground in front sits an artist. Be- hind him are two herdsmen, followed by dogs. Panel, 20 inches by 16 inches. Sale. J. A. Snijers, Antwerp, April 27, 1818, No. 104. i75/>. Landscape with a Woman and a Youth conversing. Signed ; canvas, 10 inches by 8 inches. Sale. Amsterdam, December 9, 1862, No. 180. 175*:. Landscape with Figures. io inches by 8J inches. Sales. Revil, 1852. B. de S , Paris, May 4, 1865, No. 200. 176. A HILLY LANDSCAPE. In the foreground are cows and sheep, tended by a woman and a small boy. A light picture, with fresh green foliage ; the brownish tones of the animals and the landscape are in harmony. Apparently the landscape is by Wijnants, and only the figures and animals by A. van de Velde. The author has not verified the signa- ture, but it did not leave an unfavourable impression. Signed in full in the centre at foot, and dated 1663 ; panel, n inches by 15! inches. Acquired from J. A. A. de Lelie, 1836. In the collection of J. Rombouts, Dordrecht, 1850. In the collection of L. Dupper, bequeathed to the Rijksmuseum in 1870. In the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, 1910 catalogue, No. 2444.
