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 48 JACOB VAN RUISDAEL SECT. 135^. A Plain with Cornfields. A village. In front are a horse- man and a man on foot. Panel, about 13! inches by 19^ inches. In the Weyer collection, Cologne, 1852 (Parthey, ii. 457). i35 Hickman). 136. Landscape with Cornfields, and Sheep and Figures. Sm. 214. A far-reaching view across an open plain varied with woods, meadows, and cornfields, villages and churches amid trees, cottages and windmills. In front are the ruins of a castle with a stagnant moat, fringed with trees and underwood. On the left a winding road passes a cornfield with sheaves and a group of trees and is lost in the distance. A shepherd sits on the old castle-wall, conversing with a youth seated on the ground, near a dog and three sheep. On a bastion, on the other side, are three sheep ; in a breach of the bastion stands a man. On a pool are three swans. The figures and cattle are by A. van de Velde. A thunderstorm has just passed over. In the sky are masses of rolling cloud, through which sunbeams fall on windmills in the distance. The rest of the land- scape is in partial shadow. " This capital picture may be cited as a chef d'oeuvre of the artist in this peculiar department of landscape-painting " (Sm.). [Compare 775, 776.] Canvas, 43 inches by 57 inches. Exhibited at Manchester, 1857, No. 699, by R. Sanderson. Sale. Jan Gildemeester, Amsterdam, June n, 1800, No. 190 (315 florins, Tays). In the collection of the Marquis de Marialva, Paris, 1825 ; bought privately by Sm. Sales. John Smith, London, 1828 (472 : IDS.). Abrahams, London, 1831 (275). In the collection of Richard Sanderson, London, 1835 (Sm.). Sale. R. Sanderson, London, June 17, 1848 (504, Brown) ; but apparently bought in, for it was in the Sanderson collection in 1854 (Waagen, ii. 288), and was lent from it to Manchester in 1857. 136^7. A Road through a Cornfield. A peasant, a windmill, a distant church. 19 inches by 23 inches. Sale. J. Gillott, London, April 19, 1872, No. 352 (^86 : 2s., Everard). 137. The Cornfield. Sm. 52 and 157. In the centre foreground is a sedgy pool, with bushes, flags, and a decayed tree on the right, and an old oak on the bank in the centre, farther back. A sunlit foreground extends in the middle distance ; it is bounded at the back by trees, above which rises a church tower. To the left of the oak a man in a broad- brimmed hat, with a stick on his shoulder, walks to the left. A "choice and brilliant production" (Sm.). [Pendant to 704.] Described from the engraving.