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1 78 JACOB VAN RUISDAEL SECT. 564. A Wooded Landscape with a Stream. Sm. 96. A stream flows along the foreground. Farther back is a broken sandy hill, covered with trees of varied foliage. Among them is a withered oak, stripped of its bark, with only one branch in leaf. A shepherd drives sheep through the wood. On the other side is a cottage near a high hill. Canvas, 41 inches by 50 inches. Sale. Major Dunn, London, 1828 (315). Sold before 1835 for more than twice the above sum, and in the possession of Cane, Richmond, before 1835 (Sm.). Sales. Cave, London, 1840 (^420, Edwards); Edwards transferred it to Norton, who sold it to Sir Thomas Baring. Sir Thomas Baring, London, June 2, 1848 (204 : 155., Sm.) ; Sm. sold it to H. Labouchere (for 260) ; this and the last entry are noted by Sm. in his own copy of his catalogue. 564^. A Dark Landscape with a Pool in the Middle. Panel, 12 inches by 18 inches. Sale. Mile. Helene Kerry, Antwerp, September 18, 1848, No. 95. 565. A Wooded Landscape with a Pool. A broad road beside the pool ; figures and horses. Panel, 36 inches by 49^ inches. Sale. Amsterdam, December 17, 1850, No. 108 (Roos). 566. THE ENTRANCE TO THE FOREST. Sm. 26, 55, and Suppl. 66. In the middle distance between sandhills is a still pool. A road winds through the wood. At the right side of the road near the front a man and woman seated converse with a man who stands with his dog. Farther back another man with his dog comes forward, wading through a flooded place. Above the wood rises a church tower. Through the openings in the wood are seen distant hills. " Painted in the artist's finished style and best period" (Sm.). Traces of the monogram in the left-hand bottom corner ; canvas, 21 1 inches by 27^ inches. Exhibited at the Royal Academy Winter Exhibition, London, 1891, No. 80 ; lent by G. Salting. Engraved in the Choiseul Gallery. Sales. Due de Choiseul, Paris, April 6, 1772, No. 65 (910 francs, Brilleaud). Paris, 1774 (400 francs). Coders, Paris, February 29, 1789 (1500 francs). Tolozan, Paris, February 23, 1801 (1500 francs). Lapeyriere, Paris, April 19, 1815 (7200 francs). Imported into England in 1840 by Fradel and sold to Pennell, who sold it to Sm. In the collection of William Theobald, 1842 (Sm.). Sale. W. Theobald, London, May 10, 1851 (^263 : us., Gritten) ; sold by Gritten to Gibbons. In the collection of George Salting, London ; bequeathed to the National Gallery in 1909. In the National Gallery, London, No. 2563.