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 xm JACOB VAN RUISDAEL 89 268. THE WATERFALL. Signed in full on the right at foot ; canvas, 24^ inches by 22 inches. Sale. Evrard Rh6ne, Paris, May 6, 1861. In the Dutuit collection, Rouen. In the Petit Palais des Beaux-Arts, Paris, Dutuit bequest, 1907 catalogue, No. 926. 269. A WATERFALL. Near a forest pool. Signed. In the collection of Balny d'Avricourt, Paris. 270. A WATERFALL NEAR A THATCHED SHED. Sm. 246, and Suppl. 33. In the left middle distance of a hilly landscape a stream forms a low waterfall and then flows to the right foreground. On the rocky left bank are sheep and low bushy trees. To the right are larger trees, in front of which is a thatched shed ; a man is at work in the shed and a woman sits in front, nursing her child. Behind the shed the ground rises gently to an open sunlit plateau on which are a shepherd and sheep, in front of high bushes. To the left, beyond the waterfall, is a view of low hills. Cloudy sky. " A highly pleasing example " (Sm.). Signed in full on the right at foot ; canvas, i6| inches by 21 inches. Sales. Jurriaans, Amsterdam, August 28, 1817, No. 56 (950 florins, De Lelie). W. A. Verbrugge, The Hague, September 27, 1831, No. 47 (915 florins, Hagens). Imported into England by the dealer Chaplin, 1836. In the collection of Stuart Hodgson, London. In the collection of E. H. Lawrence, London. In the possession of the Paris dealer C. Sedelmeyer, " Catalogue of 300 Paintings," 1898, No. 188. In the collection of Rodolphe Kann, Paris, 1907 catalogue, No. 78 ; bought as a whole by the dealers Duveen, August 1907. In the possession of the dealers Duveen Brothers, Paris. 271. A WATERFALL NEAR A CASTLE. In the centre ot a hilly landscape is a pool with rocky banks partly covered with bushes and, on the left, with tall firs. In the right background a stream flows into the pool, forming a little waterfall, and then rushes forward, over two rocks on the left and over bushes on the right. In the centre of the dis- tance is a castle on a hill ; farther to the right is a range of mountains. Light clouds float across the blue sky. Signed in full on the right at foot on a projecting rock ; canvas, 20 inches by 17 inches. In the collection of Rodolphe Kann, Paris, 1907 catalogue, No. 79 ; bought as a whole by the dealers Duveen, August 1907. In the possession of the dealers Duveen Brothers, Paris. 272. A HILLY LANDSCAPE WITH A COTTAGE AND A WATERFALL. On either side of a rocky hill, on which stands a woodcutter's hut, flows a torrent. The broader stream on the right forms a waterfall over tree-trunks ; the lower stream rushes down over