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 xin JACOB VAN RUISDAEL 19 grow on a low ruined wall to the left. In front of these a pool stretches across the foreground nearly to the right edge. In the left centre, on the farther bank, are willows by the water. In the left middle distance a cottage stands by a winding road which leads to distant trees. In the right foreground, before the castle door, a woman spreads linen on the bank of the pool ; she wears a blue skirt, a brown bodice with white sleeves, and a white cap. On the farther bank of the pool a man and a boy walk to the left. A bird flies over the water. Blue sky with dark clouds on the right and sunlit clouds to the left. Signed on the left with the monogram ; panel, 18 inches by 24^ inches. Sale. C. Scarisbrick, London, May 10, 1861 (^225:155., Graham- Gilbert). In the collection of John Graham-Gilbert, Glasgow, bequeathed to the city in 1877. In the Glasgow Art Gallery, 1908 catalogue, No. 880. 39. THE RUINS OF THE CASTLE OF BREDERODE. In the foreground is a shallow stream, with an oak and other trees to the right. Under the trees a man, in profile to the left, stands fishing. In the left middle distance, on rising ground, stand the ruins of the castle of Brederode, a square tower with a wall to the left in front of a thick wood. A fine evening. [Compare 400 and note to 44 ; the drawing of the castle does not correspond in these cases. Hobbema painted the ruins from the same standpoint in three pictures in the Wallace Collection, London, No. 60 ; in the collection of H. C. Frick, New York (formerly belonging to Lord Howe) ; and in the Baron Konigswarter sale, Berlin, 1906. See Hobbema, 17, 19, 24.] Signed on the left with the monogram ; panel, 15! inches by 16 inches. Exhibited at the Royal Academy Winter Exhibition, London, 1892, No. 184. In the collection of the Duchesse de Berry ; exhibited for sale in London, 1834 ( an d priced at 160). Sale. Duchesse de Berry, Paris, April 4, 1837, No. 28 (3832 francs). In the possession of the London dealer Chaplin, 1842 (Sin.). Sale. Chaplin, London, April 4, 1848 (jno, bought in). Sold by Chaplin in 1848 to Thomas Baring. In the collection of the Earl of Northbrook, London, 1889 catalogue, No. 89. 39*. RUINS BY A POOL IN A WOOD. The ruins, so often painted by Ruisdael and Hobbema, which are wrongly called Brederode. Ascribed in Sir F. Cook's catalogue to Hobbema. Panel, 16 inches by 2o| inches. In the collection of Sir Frederick Cook, Bart., Richmond, Surrey. 39*. The Castle of Brederode. Sale. W. van Haansbergen, The Hague, June 19, 1755, No. 158 (15 florins, Galjart). 39^. The Ruins of the Castle of Brederode. [Possibly identical with