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 xiii JACOB VAN RUISDAEL 75 farther bank are several oaks. In the right distance are many oaks, with the ruins of a brick building towering above them. In the middle dis- tance towards the right are two figures and a dog. Signed in full on the left at foot ; canvas, 40 inches by 52 inches. Exhibited at DUsseldorf, 1904, No. 372. Formerly at Schloss Harkotten. In the collection of Freiherr von Ketteler, Schloss Ehringerfeld. 221. A WATERFALL. In the centre is a great waterfall, divided into three parts by two masses of rock. The foaming stream at the foot fills almost the whole width of the foreground. To the right is a rocky bank with bushes. In front is a tree-stump. The left bank is overgrown with oaks ; it runs to the right distance, across the middle of the picture. On a bare rock almost in the centre sits a shepherd, near three sheep. In the immediate foreground to the left a bare tree has fallen down. In the centre is a view of a plain. Cloudy sky. The figures are by Ruisdael himself. Signed in full in the left centre foreground ; canvas, 21 inches by 25 inches. In the possession of the Mannheim dealer Arteria. Bought from him for the Grand Duke Leopold II. (1824-59) (for 1200 francs). In the Pitti Palace, Florence, 1894 catalogue, No. 429. 222. A WOODED LANDSCAPE, WITH A WATER- FALL. Sm. 1 66. In a valley in an oak wood a stream flows from the left to the right foreground, where it forms a waterfall. On the right bank is the stump of a broken tree which lies to the left with its leafless branches in the water. The bank rises steeply ; above, amid the oaks, is a cottage with figures at the door. In the middle distance to the left is another cottage with a thatched roof in a clearer light. A man with a sack on his shoulder, followed by a dog, approaches the cottage from the right. Gloomy clouds herald the approach of rain. Signed with the monogram described as false in the Frankfort catalogue on the left at foot ; canvas, 22| inches by 27 inches. A copy is in the collection of Count Harrach, Vienna. Etched by J. Eissenhardt. Bought in 1819 for the gallery from Arbeiter of Mainz. In the Stadel'sches Kunstinstitut, Frankfort-on-Main, 1900 catalogue, No. 269 ; it was valued by Sm. in 1835 (at 157 : ios.). 223. A WATERFALL WITH A COTTAGE ON THE LEFT BANK. A stream flows from the centre distance in a narrow channel between rocks to the foreground, where it forms a waterfall and whirlpool. In the left foreground is a white tree-stump. In the left middle distance, amid trees, is a cottage. Farther to the left is a church tower. To the right on rocky ground is a clump of beeches, with hills in the distance. Signed in full on the left at foot ; canvas, 39! inches by 35 inches. Exhibited at Vienna, 1873, No. 102.