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 xm JACOB VAN RUISDAEL 119 Signed in full; panel, 23^ inches by 18 inches. Sale. J. A. Topfer, Amsterdam, November 16, 1841, No. 153 (25 florins, A. Wolff). 364. A Waterfall. Sm. Suppl. 93. In an unusually open landscape, a church stands in the centre of the middle distance. To the right are two houses amid trees. Nearer the front lie two tree-trunks. Beyond the waterfall are two persons conversing. Canvas, about 27 inches by 21 inches. In the collection of Count Moltke, Copenhagen, 1842 (Sm.) ; but no longer there. 365. A Waterfall. Sm. Suppl. 17. To the left is a rugged hill. The edge of a precipice is fenced ; near it are a few sheep. Beyond is a woodman's hut, with timber in front. Higher up the hill is a cottage amid trees. A third house stands on a lower hill at the side. A road leads from the valley to the hill- top ; on the road are three travellers. To the right is a fourth house ; above it are a thick wood and a church tower. In the centre is a river which falls in foaming eddies amid stones and flows across the foreground. The stream is divided by two rocks ; three logs lie on a bank at the side. "A well-studied and carefully finished picture " (Sm.). Signed, and dated 1661 ; canvas, 30 inches by 32 inches. Imported from Paris into England, 1841. In the possession of the London dealer Chaplin, 1842 (Sm.). 366. A Waterfall. Sm. Suppl. 103. On the left is a rocky hill, partly covered with trees. Among the trees is a house ; on an open green near it are three figures. In the centre is a waterfall, divided by a rock ; the foaming water flows across the foreground. To the left lies the trunk of a silver beech. On a rock to the right are two anglers ; one of them is seated. Light fleecy clouds in the sunset sky, which is reflected in the smooth water above the fall. A "superb picture" (Sm.). Canvas, 40 inches by 56 inches. Sale. Sir Simon Clarke, Bart., London, May 8, 1840 (556 : ios., Nieu- wenhuys). Sold by Nieuwenhuys in 1842 to the Earl of Onslow. 367. A Great Landscape with a Waterfall. A wooded landscape with a river in front. On the left bank lies a fallen beech, whose withered branches fill almost half the picture. Intermingled with these are the branches of a fallen oak, one end of which lies in the water. The bank is covered with tall trees and bushes. On the other side a steep road, lined with trees, leads up the slope from the stream till lost to view. A man and a woman walk up the road. Near them four sheep graze. Sky slightly overcast, with a little sunshine. [Possibly identical with 418 or 643^] Canvas, 40^ by 51 inches. In the collection of the Marquess of Conyngham, Ireland. Bought from him by Sir Hugh H. Campbell or by Farrer (MS. note by Sm. in his own copy of his catalogue).