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 xiii JACOB VAN RUISDAEL 271 farther back is a woman with a child. On the slope is a line of trees. Above is the sunlit sky with clouds. Unusually strong colour and light. Signed in full on the right at foot ; panel, 12 J inches by 14 inches. In the collection of R. D. Evans, Boston. 879. DUNES WITH A VILLAGE. Sm. 268. In front is a sand dune, sloping steeply in the middle, with three sheep on it. At the foot is a marshy pool. To the left are a man with a gun on his shoulder, a boy, and a dog. In the middle distance are three clumps of trees and a hedge. Beyond, to the left, is a cottage roof; farther left is a sunlit field. Very good in quality and broad in style ; of the early period. Signed with the monogram on the right at foot ; panel, 9^ inches by 13 inches. In the collection of the Hon. Henry Windsor, 1835 (Sm.). In the collection of A. A. Vansittart, who presented it to the museum, 1876. In the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, 1902 catalogue, No. 65. 880. DUNES NEAR HAARLEM. Sm. 267. To the left is a cottage half hidden by two withered trees and a fence, against which lies an old wheel. A peasant crosses a plank over a pool in front of the cottage. In the right middle distance is a small cottage sheltered by stunted trees " and a sandhill. Dark rain-clouds. Signed in full on the right at foot, and dated 1 6 (probably about 1649) ; panel, 2o| inches by 26^ inches. In the collection of the Hon. Henry Windsor, 1835 (Sm.). In the collection of A. A. Vansittart, who presented it to the museum, 1876. In the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, 1902 catalogue, No. 84. 88 1. WOODED DUNES. Figures crossing a stream. On the right are two figures, one of them in red. To the left is a little house. Beyond is a waterfall. In the Palace, Dessau, No. 346. 882. DUNES. In front is barren heath. In the left middle distance is a wood. To the right is a little grassy hill crossed by a dilapidated wooden fence on which the sunlight falls. A narrow road leads between the wood and the hill, along which comes a woman. In the wood to the left is a cottage. In the distance are dunes. An eighteenth-century label on the back states that the pendant was signed and dated 1657. The Frankfort catalogue assigns this landscape to the early period, before 1650. Panel, 17^ inches by 14 inches. Exhibited at Munich, 1869 ; lent from the Gontard collection. In the collection of Georg Finger des Raths, Frankfort. In the Gontard collection, Munich ; bequeathed to Frankfort in 1892. In the Stadel'sches Kunstinstitut, Frankfort-on-Main, Gontard bequest, 1900 catalogue, No. 2726. 883. HORSEMEN FORDING A STREAM AMID DUNES. A sportsman with dogs comes towards them. The dunes are painted very much in the manner of Wijnants. On the right, farther back, are bathers.