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 xm JACOB VAN RUISDAEL 67 Signed on the left with the monogram ; canvas, 20| inches by 26| inches. Sale. J. Dintl and others, Vienna, November 23, 1869, No. 139. igjf. Landscape with a Mill. Signed with the monogram ; panel, 10 inches by 14 inches. Sale. Hertogenbosch, May 17, 1882, No. 19. 197^. Landscape with a Stream and a Mill. Signed ; canvas, 22 inches by 26 inches. Exhibited at Brussels, 1882, No. 208. Then in the Bellefroid collection, Brussels. 1 97 h. A Mill in a Wooded River Landscape. Figures and sheep. 37 inches by 46 inches. Sale. John Corbett, London, June 18, 1904, No. 144. 198. A WATERFALL NEAR AN OAK WOOD. Sm. Suppl. i. In the left foreground is a waterfall divided in the middle by a rock ; to the left is a tree-trunk lying half in the stream. In the right foreground is a rocky bank with a birch stem bent to the right. In the right middle distance is a great oak wood, traversed by a road on which stand a man and boy conversing with a woman who sits nursing a child. To the left of the road is the stream, through which two persons apparently men drive a flock of sheep. Beyond is a wooded slope. In the centre is a view over a cornfield with sheaves ; in the distance is a village with two wind-mills and a church. A fine evening, with rolling clouds and sunlight falling on the cornfield and wood. "This excellent picture, in addition to its being one of the largest works of the artist, is singularly grand and rich in its composition, combined with unusual clear- ness and brilliancy of colouring and the most masterly execution, justly entitling it to the appellation of a chef cfceuvre" (Sm.). Signed in full on a stone on the right at foot ; canvas though the Amsterdam catalogue says it is on oak panel 56 inches by 76^ inches. Exhibited at Amsterdam, 1845, No. 134. Bought by an ancestor of Sir Charles Blount, Bart., on the Continent about the year 1740 (Sm.). In the collection of Sir Charles Blount, Bart., who sold it to Sm. in 1836. Sold by Sm. to A. van der Hoop, Amsterdam, 1837 (for 1450). Bequeathed by A. van der Hoop to Amsterdam with his collection in 1854. In the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, Van der Hoop bequest, 1910 catalogue, No. 2075. 199. THE WATERFALL. Sm. 13. A richly wooded mountain valley. In the left middle distance rises a steep hill crowned by a castle. Amid great oaks at the foot of the hill is a shepherd with sheep. On the right, farther back, is the steep bank overgrown with firs and oaks ; another castle stands on the top ; in two clearings on the slope sheep are grazing. In front is a great waterfall, filling the lower half of the picture across its whole width. To right and left it is bounded by rocks, and is