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 xiv MEINDERT HOBBEMA 387 Sale. Maximilian I., King of Bavaria, Munich, December 5, 1826, No. 36 (800 florins). 98. A Wooded Landscape with a Water-Mill. 8111.31. The water-mill is in the centre. Beside it is a sluice, from which a broad stream flows to the front. To the left are leafy trees, through which passes a rough road. A peasant, followed by a dog, drives two cows and three sheep along the road, in front of him a sportsman in a red jacket points his gun at some ducks on the other side of the water. A boat laden with sacks lies near the bank. Beyond it is a red-tiled cottage, close to meadows with trees. A sunny morning. The figures and cattle were attributed by Sm. to Berchem, but were assigned in the 1768 sale-catalogue to Dirck van Bergen. Canvas, 38^ inches by 52 inches. Sales. Pieter Caauw, Leyden, August 24, 1768, No. 15 (300 florins). P. van Spijk, Leyden, April 23, 1787, No. 41. Crawford, London, 1806, No. 7 (^210, Barnet) ; see Buchanan, ii. 182. Charles Offley, London, 1809 (^462). M. Zachary, London, 1828 (1575, bought in). In the collection of Michael Zachary, London, 1835 (Sm.). 99. A Water-Mill and Cottages. Sm. Suppl. 4. A high road leading from the foreground to the distance divides the landscape. On the left stands an overshot water-mill amid clumps of leafy trees. In the centre is a cottage amid trees ; a person stands at the half-door conversing with a peasant. A thatched cottage stands in the shade of trees to the right. A man and a boy stand conversing with a traveller seated at the roadside. A man in a red jacket is near a pool on the left. A summer afternoon. An "admirable picture" (Sm.). Canvas, about 36 inches by 50 inches. Exhibited at the British Institution, London, 1837. Then in the collection of the Earl of Burlington, Holker Hall. 99<?. A Wooded Landscape with a Water-Mill. 30 inches by 43^ inches. Sale. S. Tulp, Leeuwaarden, April 9, 1846, No. I (10,000 florins, bought in). 99^. A Water-Mill, a Village Church, and a Cottage. Sale.Sr T. Baring, London, June 2, 1848 (288 : 153., White). 100. A Water-Mill. Sm. Suppl. 25. A water-mill stands on the left, beyond a stream. A winding road in the centre foreground leads round a knoll through a well-wooded and undulating country. On the bank of the stream, near the road, are a large tree and two small trees. Two horsemen, preceded by two dogs, approach the trees. A traveller, with a bundle on his back, sits on a bank at the side. The tower and part of the roof of a church rise above trees in the distance. [Pendant to 132. Compare 94. ] Signed, and dated 1633 according to Ch. Blanc ; canvas, 51 inches by 54 inches.