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 xni JACOB VAN RUISDAEL 279 Panel, u inches by i6 inches. Sale. J. F. Wolschot, Antwerp, September i, 1817, No. 351. 904?'. Dunes. Trees in the distance, figures, and ships. Canvas, 13 inches by 15 inches. Sale. Amsterdam, July 16, 1819, No. 143 (40 florins, Brondgeest). 905. Dunes. Sm. 330. A richly varied landscape with hilly country and plain, sandhills, and fields. Great trees and figures by Adriaen van de Velde. In front, on a road in a valley, are a traveller with a dog and a woman carrying a child on her back, who converses with a seated shep- herd. At one side of the road is a house with a tiled roof; high trees with undergrowth mark the beginning of a wood. At the other side are fine trees and bushes skirting a field which a man ploughs with the help of a white bullock. Beyond the field are two thatched cottages, with a fenced garden full of trees. In front of them sits a woman with a child and a boy who plays with a dog. In the middle distance are two sunlit hills. One hill is of sand ; on it are small figures, a thatched cottage, trees, and bushes. The other hill is almost all ploughed land, with a wood on the top. In the valley between the hills are the outlying houses of a large town ; the fine churches and the house-roofs are seen amid trees. Beyond, an open field stretches away into the distance. Silvery grey sky covered with light clouds. One of Ruisdael's best pictures. Canvas, 22^ inches by 28 inches but 28 inches by 34 inches, accord- ing to Sm., who only knew of the picture from the Brunswick catalogue. In the collection of the Duke of Braunschweig- Wolfenbiittel, who gave it in 1795 to De Burtin. Sale. De Burtin, Brussels, July 21, 1819, No. 154. 906. Landscape with an Uphill Road. A still pool near the road. Beyond an oak and some undergrowth is a farm with a dovecot. Panel, 8 inches by 10 inches. Sale. C. S. Roos, Amsterdam, August 28, 1820, No. 93 (146 florins, Van den Berg). 906.7. Dunes with a Pool. Fishermen in a boat. Very broadly painted and excellently handled in the manner of Hobbema. Panel, 9! inches by 12 inches. Sale. S. J. Stinstra and others, Amsterdam, May 22, 1882, No. 147. 906^. A Shepherd driving Sheep through a Stream. The stream flows through dunes. Strong and natural in style. In the manner of Hobbema. Sale. S. J. Stinstra and others, Amsterdam, May 22, 1822, No. 150. 906*:. A Good Dune Landscape. Broadly painted. Panel, 9 inches by io inches. Sale. Amsterdam, October 30, 1823, No. 227 (6 florins, Gruijter). 907. DUNES. A tangled thicket of trees near a pool, on which lies a small boat. Along a sandy road walks a man with a stick on his