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 74 JACOB VAN RUISDAEL SECT. in a curve towards the right foreground, where it forms a low waterfall, and then runs to right and left, leaving an intervening space with logs. In the left foreground is a fir tree, rising almost to the top of the picture. Near it is the stump of another fir. In the right middle distance, high up, is a thatched cottage with a fence and a high tree. Beyond it is a wood. On the bank to the left a shepherd and shepherdess are resting, with sheep near. Beyond is another wood, with a hill-top rising above it. "A beautiful example " (Sm.). [Pendant to 613.] Signed in full on the right at foot ; canvas, 25 inches by 2o| inches. In Guarienti's Dresden inventory, before 1753, No. 1567. In the Dresden Gallery, 1908 catalogue, No. 1501 ; Sm. valued it in 1835 (at ^262 : ios.). 219. THE JEWS' BURYING-GROUND. See Sm. 60. In the middle of a wooded landscape is a stately ruin. In front to the right is a small white sarcophagus on three dark steps, flanked by two larger white sarcophagi, with lofty trees behind to the right. Many other tombs are scattered about. In the right foreground is a white and leafless tree- trunk. Almost in the centre is a waterfall ; the stream flows to the right. Dull cloudy sky. In the left middle distance are two figures in black. [Compare 616, 779^.] Signed in full on the left on a tomb ; canvas, 33^ inches by 38 inches. Sm. describes this as " a duplicate, differing in size and inferior in quality, having become dark by time," of " The Cemetery " (Sm. 60), an " excellent picture" ; on canvas, 36 inches by 41 inches, with the following history : Sales. (Probably) Amsterdam, May 9, 1770, No. 2. P. Locquet, Amsterdam, September 22, 1783, No. 315 (40 florins, Vullens). Marin, Paris, March 22, 1790 (2000 francs). Paris, 1802 (3203 francs). Bought from a Paris banker, about 1815 (for 20,000 francs) by Huygens, who imported it into England and sold it to George Gillows, from whose executors it was bought by Zachary. Sale. Zachary, London, 1828 (913 : ios.). In the Mackintosh collection, 1835 (Sm.). [Compare 380.] What was apparently another version on panel, i8 inches by 24^ inches occurred in the sale: R. Pott and others, Rotterdam, October 1 1, 1855, No. 59. An engraving made by A. Blooteling in 1670 after a drawing by Ruisdael shows that the Jews' burying-ground at Amsterdam formed the basis of the picture, the ruins and waterfall being added by the painter. Mentioned by Goethe in Ruisdael als Dichter (" Ruisdael as Poet "). Engraved by J. G. Primavisi and Friedrich. Sale. (Possibly) Amsterdam, September 16, 1739 (Hoet, i. 604), No. 88 (n florins 10). In the Dresden inventory of 1754, ii. 490. In the Dresden Gallery, 1908 catalogue, No. 1502. 220. LANDSCAPE WITH TREES AND A LOW WATERFALL. On the left is a sandy bank overgrown with grass and a bare birch stem. To the right, near it, is a waterfall. On the