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 xin JACOB VAN RUISDAEL 205 646*7. A Woodland Path. In front are five figures. In the distance is a church tower. Cloudy sky. Signed with the monogram ; panel, 41^ inches by 60 inches. Exhibited at the Royal Academy Winter Exhibition, London, 1879, No. 171. Then in the collection of Sir Henry Hawley, London. 647. A Woodland Road. A glade. A man sits on a tree-trunk. Signed, and dated 1651. Sale. Paris, January 27, 1882 (1520 francs) ; noted by Paul Eudel, 1883, p. 44. 647*. A Hilly and Wooded Landscape. Panel, 15^ inches by 16 inches. Sale. P. Methorst, senior, and others, Amsterdam, March 14, 1882, No. 73. 648. A Stag Hunt in a Wooded Landscape. In front is a glade surrounded by high trees. Figures by Ph. Wouwerman. Signed in full on the right at foot ; canvas, 20j inches by 25^ inches. Sale. Brenken and others, Cologne, April i, 1886, No. 87 (3450 mark, Bourgeois). 649. A Wooded Landscape. On high ground sloping down from right to left is a great oak, with a little waterfall at the foot. In front to right and left are tree-trunks. Farther back, near a beech, is a peasant in red with a dog. Heavy clouds in the sky. Of the early period. Signed with the monogram on the right at foot ; panel, 19! inches by 25 inches. Probably the landscape ascribed to Hobbema in the Sierstorpff collection (Parthey, i. 590). Exhibited at Dusseldorf, 1886, No. 284. Sale. Sierstorpff of Driburg, Berlin, April 19, 1887, No. 68. 649*7. A Woodland Road with a Vista. On the right three peasants converse. To the left is a traveller with a bundle. Signed in full, and dated 1665 ; panel, 18 inches by 27^ inches. Sale. Kreutzlin and others, Frankfort-on-Main, May 13, 1897, No. 130. 649^. A Wooded Landscape with Figures. Horsemen and others on a road ; sheep in the middle distance. Canvas, 51 inches by 63 inches. Sales. Baron de Hirsch, London, February 6, 1897, No. 49. Murchison and others, London, June n, 1897, No. 59. 650. A WOODED LANDSCAPE. A lofty wood with a narrow opening in the centre fills almost the whole width of the middle distance. Only on the right is there a view of the sunlit sea. To the left, high up, is a house surrounded by a wall with a great archway. Four persons, in a waggon drawn by a grey horse and another horse, enter the archway ; a dog runs in front. To the right in a shady meadow are five cows and some sheep. In the centre foreground is a tree-stump. An early work. The figures are by A. van de Velde.