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 230 JACOB VAN RUISDAEL SECT. 724. A WOODED RIVER LANDSCAPE. A peasant. A small and good picture. Signed. Sale. Earl of Clancarty, London, March 12, 1892, No. 73 (21). 725. A HILLY LANDSCAPE WITH A RIVER AND GREAT TREES. The trees are in the right centre foregound. The nearest tree, with white bark, is shattered ; only one branch is in leaf. Behind to the right is a cliff; at the edge of the picture is foliage. To the left of the trees a road leads from the left foreground to the distance. Along the road comes a shepherd with sheep. Near it is the river ; on the farther bank are hills and a village with a church. Signed in full on the cliff to the right ; canvas, 53 inches by 67 inches. In the possession of the Paris dealer C. Sedelmeyer, "Catalogue of loo Paintings," 1895, No. 36. 725*7. Landscape. A peasant and a horseman at a river. Houses in the distance. Panel, 12 inches by 18 inches. Sale. Broadwood and others, London, March 25, 1899, No. 35. 725^. A Wooded Landscape with a Rushing Stream. The stream is in front. A cottage and a fallen tree. 22^ inches by 26 inches. Sale. E. J. Alcock and others, London, November 25, 1899, No. 52. 725*:. A River Landscape. To the right, upon a rock with scanty vegetation, is a group of large trees hanging over a river which flows through the middle distance. On the farther bank is a group of cottages at the foot of a range of hills. Signed with the monogram ; canvas, 18 inches by 22^ inches. Sale. Delitt and others, Cologne, February 5, 1900, No. 61. 726. A WOODED RIVER LANDSCAPE. In the right foreground is a great oak. To the left of it is a horseman. Farther to the left a shepherd drives sheep away along a road. In the left foreground is a white tree-trunk, with a white tree-stump behind it to the right. In the centre of the middle distance a river zigzags away into the back- ground. In the left distance is a castle on a high hill. In the centre is a view of the hilly and wooded background. Signed in full on the right at foot ; canvas, 18 inches by 23 inches. In the possession or the Paris dealer C. Sedelmeyer, "Catalogue of 100 Paintings," 1906, No. 36. 726*. RIVER SCENE WITH PEASANTS. On a hill to the left are cottages among trees. On the grass to the left lies a man. Beyond him is a goat. Farther away are two peasants ; one of them, in red, has a flock of sheep. The figure resting was probably added by a later hand.