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 xiii JACOB VAN RUISDAEL 105 Waterfall. The water rushes down in front against rocks and fallen tree-trunks. On one side is a cottage with lofty pines. On the other side are shepherds resting, with sheep. A view of woods. Canvas, 40 inches by 34 inches. Sale. Amsterdam, September 13, 1797, No. 132 (1000 florins, Van Santen). 308*7. A Hilly Landscape with a Waterfall. The foaming water rushes down in front between rocks. On the hills are trees, cottages, and church towers. Peasants drive sheep across a wooden bridge. Canvas, 34 inches by 41 inches. Sale. C. van Tarelink, Amsterdam, August 1 8, 1798, No. 4 (600 florins, Wreesman). 308^. A Hilly Landscape with a Waterfall. The waterfall is at the side under high trees. A distant church tower. All sunny and vigorously painted. Canvas, 25^ inches by 2o| inches. Sale. G. H. Trochel and others, Amsterdam, May 1 1, 1801, No. 73 (100 florins, Allard). 309. A Waterfall. Sm. 88. On the right are rugged hills over- grown with trees which are contrasted in colour and leaf. In the centre is a lake, the water from which falls in a cascade amid rocks and flows across the foreground. On the left are clumps of trees on the sides and top of a rocky hill. Canvas, 39 inches by 54 inches. Sale. Robit, Paris, May 21, 1801 (3200 francs). 309*. Landscape with a Waterfall. There was, besides 309, another picture of this subject, undescribed, in the sale : Robit, Paris, May 21, 1801 ; Bryan, Nos. 49, 175 ; Buchanan, ii. 68, 72. 310. A Waterfall in Norway. Sm. 61. A great volume of water flows in swift eddies amid rocks and falls in foam to the foreground. To right and left are high rocky hills partly covered with trees ; on the hill- tops are woodcutters' huts. [Compare 251.] Canvas, 35 inches by 50 inches. Sales. Marin, Paris, March 22, 1790 (951 francs). Paris, 1802 (4010 francs). A Wooded and Hilly Landscape with a Waterfall. Figures angling, bathing, and walking. Masterly in style. 65^ inches by 53^ inches. Sale. Amsterdam, May 5, 1802, No. 178 (11 florins, Stevens). 310^. A Hilly Landscape with a Waterfall. The water falls in front between rocks. Trees. On a hill near a cottage sit a shepherd and a woman, with sheep.