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 i 4 2 JACOB VAN RUISDAEL SECT. 437. A Waterfall. Sm. Suppl. 21. In a hilly landscape a castle stands on the slopes of a rocky hill in the middle distance. A stream flows along the foot of the hills and forms a waterfall in front. Two oaks, with the trunks crossing, stand on a bank to the left. Beyond, through an opening in the hills, are seen distant mountains. Three men are on the farther bank of the stream. A fourth is in a boat. Canvas, 27 inches by 21 inches. Imported into England from Copenhagen by the dealer Chaplin before 1842 (Sm.). 438. A Waterfall. Sm. Suppl. 12. In a wild hilly landscape a fine cataract rushes in two parts between rocks in front. A man and a boy climb a hill at the side. Described by Sm. from a print by I. I. Strudt. 439. A Waterfall. Sm. 116. A waterfall on the left flows among stones along the foreground. On the right are woods, with charcoal- burners at work. On the bank in front is a beech trunk. Another lies at its foot. Canvas, 17 inches by 21 inches. Sm. states, erroneously, that this was engraved in the small Lebrun collection. 440. A FOREST SCENE WITH WATER. Sm. Suppl. 81. The water is in the centre foreground. A sandy road, on which is a black pig, gently ascends through a wood of tall oaks in full leaf. In the left foreground lies a tree-trunk in a cart-rut. Farther away is a shepherd with sheep. The animals and probably the figures also are by Berchem. Signed in full on the left at foot, and dated 1653 ; panel, i6| inches by 19^ inches. Engraved by J. A. Boland. Sale. G. Schimmelpenninck, Amsterdam, July 12, 1819, No. 99 (230 florins, Hulswit). Sold by the Amsterdam dealer J. A. de Lelie to Rombouts. In the collection of J. Rombouts, Dordrecht, 1842 (Sm.) and 1850. In the collection of L. Dupper, Dordrecht; bequeathed in 1870 to the Rijksmuseum. In the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, Dupper bequest, 1910 catalogue, No. 2027. 441. THE FORD. Sm. 217. On the left a placid stream flowing from the right distance bends to the right front, where it is crossed by a ford. A broad road with deep ruts leads away under a few trees through a sunlit cornfield bounded by wooded hills in the distance. To the left is a dense wood. Two horsemen ride away across the ford ; the horse ridden by a man in a red cloak gallops, while the other is in the water and seen from the back. To the right of them runs a dog. Farther to the right, near the opposite bank, a grey horse and a dark horse, harnessed to a waggon, stand facing right in the water and are drinking. Beyond, at the roadside, a woman with a child sits conversing