A wooded landscape with a peasant on a cart-horse; and A wooded landscape with a peasant woman on a cart-horse

These two small renderings of the same view are offered as pendants pace Glck; so far as can be traced, they had different provenances until they were brought together in Burchard's collection. On the reverse of each are typed labels inscribed 'L'aprs midi' and 'Le soir', which may be Burchard's modification of Glck's notion that they are both depictions of evening and painted during one session. Alder dated them to between 1625-28. Christopher Brown, loc. cit., was the first publicly to doubt their authenticity, by only attributing them to Rubens. Indeed in our present state of knowledge their handling seems too weak to justify a full attribution to the artist.

Dr. John Hunter (1728-1793), the probable owner of the latter picture, was the brother of Robert Hunter, whose collection passed to Glasgow University and is the core of the Hunterian Gallery.