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 xiv MEINDERT HOBBEMA 367 the right, farther away. In the right foreground is a little wooden hut with a hedge round the garden. Beyond it are a church and a cottage amid trees in full sunlight. On the road in front are figures ; among them a man with a stick in one hand and a bundle in the other walks to the left. An " excellent picture" (Sm.). Signed in full ; panel, 30 inches by 42 inches. Exhibited in the "Exhibition of a Hundred Masterpieces," Paris, 1892. Imported into England by Thomas Emmerson, and sold to John Lucy of Charlecote Park, who had it in 1835 (Sm.). In the collection of Baron Lionel de Rothschild, London. In the possession of the Paris dealer C. Sedelmeyer, " Catalogue of 300 Paintings," 1898, No. 60. In the collection of Rodolphe Kann, Paris, 1907 catalogue, No. 46 ; the col- lection was bought as a whole in 1907 by the dealers Duveen. In the possession of the dealers Duveen, Paris. 45. A VILLAGE STREET, AND A CHURCH WITH AN OCTAGONAL CHOIR. Sm. 39. A broad road leads from the centre foreground to the left distance ; on it a man and a woman with a child stand conversing ; beyond them are other figures. In the right fore- ground the corner of a house with a signboard projects into the picture. Beyond it, sheltered by lofty and widespreading trees, is the church with its octagonal choir ; the steeple rises to the right farther away. In the left distance, but to the right of the road, is a cottage amid trees. Cloudy sky. " Painted in a broad and effective manner, with a broad impasto of colour " (Sm.). Panel, 21 inches by 27 inches. Sales. H. Muilman, Amsterdam, April 12, 1813 (2050 florins). Lapeyriere, Paris, April 14, 1817 (7100 francs). George Morant of Intwood Hall, London, 1832 (283 : ios.). Sale. London, May 27, 1897, No. 156 (1900). In the possession of the Paris dealer C. Sedelmeyer, "Catalogue of 100 Paintings," 1901, No. 18. In the collection of Henri Heugel, Paris. 46. WOODED ROAD. A road winds away from the left centre foreground. A side road on the left ends at the door of a cottage standing to the left. On the same side are two other cottages at some distance from one another, and on the extreme left of the foreground is a fourth cottage. All of them are partly hidden among trees. In the left fore- ground is a clump of large and lofty trees, whose spreading branches fill a large part of the picture. Beneath them a man converses with a girl seated at the roadside. On the sunlit road in the middle distance are three groups of figures at intervals. To the right of the road are bushes in front, with a wood beyond. A man in red walks to the right among the bushes. Cloudy sky, with four birds above the trees to the right. Signed in full in the left centre, and dated 16-2 (the illegible figure was most probably a 6, and not 5 as some have suggested) j canvas, 40 inches by 50 inches. Exhibited at the Hudson-Fulton Celebration, Metropolitan Museum, New