258 KAREL DU JARDIN.
throwing up two fingers; while the muleteer, with his hand
closed, seems ready to answer him; the soldier, sitting on a
stone at the right, is attentively watching the game. An ass
and two dogs are standing behind the group.
1 ft. 4 in. by 1ft. 2 in.
Collection of M. Lapeyriere, . . 1826. . 4450/s. 178Z.
Again at Mr. Phillips’s, . . . 1828. .... 185 gs.

77. The Country Farrier. The view represents a high
road, at the side of which is the shop and residence of the
smith, built on a rock, from the side of which a high wall,
having a door at the end of it, extends across the picture.
Two laden mules, decked with abundance of trappings, one of
a bay, the other of a grayish white colour, stand in front of
the shop, and the latter is having one of its hind feet shod: a
man holds up the foot while the smith fits on the shoe ; his box
of tools lie on the ground by his side, and a dog is close to it.
Two children are near the door of the shop, within which is
seen a man working at the anvil. The summits of the rocks
are clothed with bushes; and above the wall, on the right, are
some distant meadows enclosed by hedges. A few flickering
clouds ssoat over the brilliant azure, and the scene is gilded
by the glowing warmth of a fine summer’s morning. This
superlative production is painted in the artist’s free and spark-
ling manner. Signed, and dated 1658.
1ft. 5 in. by 1 ft. 6 in.—C. on P.
Purchased in Italy of M. Sitteveau by the Count Pourtales, from
whom it was bought, with many other fine pictures, by the Writer,
in conjunction with Thomas Emmerson, Esq., and sold in Paris to
M. Boursault for 20,000fs. 8001.

78. The Return of the Holy Family from Egypt. The
view exhibits an open hilly country, with a stream of water in
front, through which is passing the Virgin, dressed in a blue
mantle, with the infant Saviour walking naked by her side,