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 156 JACOB VAN RUISDAEL SECT. Signed in full in the centre, and dated 1649 '> panel, 19 inches by 24 inches. Engraved by Weisbrod and Le Bas, 1773. In the collection of the Due de Praslin, 1773. Given by De Saint-Beaussant in 1845 to Nancy. In the Nancy Museum, 1897 catalogue, No. 281. 497. A WOOD WITH A POOL. A pool is in the centre of the middle distance. In the right background is a narrow strip of sea. In front and in the middle distance, to right and left, are great trees and dense undergrowth. In the extreme left foreground lie two tree-trunks. Painted about 1648-49, and very well preserved. Here and there the panel is visible under the thin paint. Panel, 28 inches by 39! inches. Exhibited at Vienna, 1873, No. 52. Successively in the collections of Festetits, Gsell, Alex. Posonyi, and Gott- fried von Preyer, Vienna. In the collection of W. A. Clark, New York. 498. THE GNARLED OAK. In the foreground is a pool, with two swans and four young on the right. To the left are dense oak woods in hilly country. To the right is open country with distant hills. In the centre is a great gnarled oak, the right side of which is in strong sunlight. On the left a man and a boy come down a woodland path. Dark clouds in a blue sky. Signed in full on the left ; canvas, 20 inches by 25 inches (the Hudson- Fulton catalogue says, 8 inches by 10 inches). Exhibited at the Hudson-Fulton Celebration, Metropolitan Museum, New York, 1909, No. 115. In the collection of the Rev. Mr. Heath, vicar of Enfield, 1857 (Waagen, Suppl. 318). In the collection of Maurice Kann, Paris. In the possession of the Paris dealer C. Sedelmeyer, "Catalogue of 100 Paintings," 1900, No. 37. In the collection of Robert W. de Forest, New York. 498*7. WOODS. On the left is the stump of a white birch ; the stem has fallen into a little pool in front, on the bank of which are bushes. In the middle distance is a wood, sloping from left to right. A path winds from the right foreground over a rough wooden bridge into the wood to the left ; on the path are a man and a boy. Dark cloudy sky. A dark picture of the late period. Signed with the monogram on the right at foot ; canvas, 25^ inches by 28 inches. Exhibited at the Hudson-Fulton Celebration, Metropolitan Museum, New York, 1909, No. 113. In the collection of Gottfried von Preyer, Vienna. In the collection of W. A. Clark, New York ; at present exhibited in the Corcoran Gallery, Washington. 499. THE FOREST. Sm. 9. A road leads away from the centre