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 xni JACOB VAN RUISDAEL 43 Canvas, 18 inches by 22 inches. Sale. Heris, Brussels, June 19, 1846, No. 64. In the collection of Alexander Leleux, bequeathed to the Lille Museum in 1873. In the Lille Museum, Leleux bequest, 1893 catalogue, No. 687. 116. A ROAD BESIDE A CORNFIELD. On the right are bushes. On the road is a sportsman with his gun on his shoulder and a dog. Signed in full on the right at foot. In the collection of C. T. D. Crews, London. 117. LANDSCAPE WITH CORNFIELDS. A sandy road leads from the right foreground towards the left background. In the left foreground are bushes. On the rolling plains beyond the road are corn- fields, partly in bright sunlight. They are fringed at the back with trees amid which are hidden some cottages. To the right, on the edge of the fields, walks a peasant with two dogs. In the middle distance, besides a hedge crossing the fields, are two men conversing. Signed in full in the left centre j canvas, 18 inches by 22 inches. Exhibited at the British Institution, London, 1850, No. 143; and at the Royal Academy Winter Exhibition, London, 1871, No. 198, and 1889, No. 121. Sale. W. Williams Hope, London, June 14, 1849 (183 : 153., B. S. Smith). Sold by Smith to Thomas Baring, in whose co'llection it was in 1854 (Waagen, ii. 187). In the collection of the Earl of Northbrook, London, 1889 catalogue, No. 92. 118. LANDSCAPE WITH CORNFIELDS. In the right foreground are old oaks, two horses, and a cart. 20 inches by 26 inches. In the Montauban Museum, 1885 catalogue, No. 332. 119. CORNFIELDS ("Un Coup de Soleil"). A sandy road, in full sunlight, occupies the foreground and goes away towards a village hidden amid trees in the distance. The road is partly grass-grown ; on it to the left lie a tree-trunk and a leafy branch. On either side of the road are fields of ripened corn. The field to the right is divided by a hedge in which are two slender trees. On the road near the front a man walks away ; farther back a woman and a boy are seen approaching. On the horizon to the left is the sea with sails ; on the shore is a beacon. A fine clouded sky. Signed in full on the right ; canvas, 40^ inches by 51^ inches. Exhibited at the Hudson-Fulton Celebration at the Metropolitan Museum, New York, 1909, No. ia. In the collection of the Comte de Colbert-Laplace. In the possession of the Paris dealer C. Sedelmeyer, "Catalogue of 100 Paintings," 1905, No. 30.