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i8o JACOB VAN RUISDAEL SECT. 570. Landscape with a Pool. In front are many water-plants. A fine beech. To the left is a vista through the trees. On the right is a view of the distance. The figures are apparently by Berchem. Canvas, about 52 inches by 72 inches. In the collection of the Earl of Jersey, Osterley Park ; it was there in 1857 (Waagen, Suppl. 273). 570^7. A Marshy Wood. Cloudy sky. Generally attributed to Hobbema. Panel, 9^ inches by 15^ inches. In the Metzinghet collection, The Hague. Sales. Baron de Varange, Paris, May 26, 1852, No. 41 (1600 francs). Baron de Morny, Paris, April 25, 1857, No. 12 (505 francs). 570^. A Pool at the Edge of an Oak Wood. In front are wild ducks. Canvas, 12^ inches by 14^ inches. Sale. M. Wolff, Berlin, May 25, 1857, No. 206. 570c. A Wood with a Pool. The pool is in front. To the left is a farm. Two peasants stand conversing in the centre. Sale. Lord Northwick, Thirlestane House, Cheltenham, July 26, 1859, No. 42 (ii : us., Abrahams). 570^. A Wood with a Stream. Panel, about 1 1 inches by 9 inches. Sale. Count von Brabeck and Count Andreas von Stolberg, of Soder, Hanover, October 31, 1859, No. 228. 570*. A Wooded Landscape. Anglers by A. van de Velde. Signed in full ; canvas, 21 inches by 25 inches. In the Suermondt collection, Aachen, 1860 (Parthey, ii. 459); but not now in the Suermondt Museum. 57<D/ The Pool. On a pool in the centre are ducks. The pool is in a wood and stretches away to the distance. In the right foreground lie two broken white birch stems ; one lies partly in the water. On the left is marshy ground with water-plants. [Possibly identical with 576*.] Canvas, 21 inches by 25 inches. Sale. Pierard of Valenciennes, Paris, March 20, 1860, No. 71 (3950 francs). 571. A Wild Wooded Landscape with a River. Sm. 170. A river, running in rapid eddies between high broken rocks, rolls along the foreground. Clumps of oaks and other trees and bushes grow on the left bank, at the foot of which are a woman with a child in her arms and two men, one of whom is angling while the other stoops with a basket to take the fish. The figures are by Philips Wouwerman. A fallen tree-trunk lies across the river. A bold and well- wooded landscape in the distance. "A beautiful and well-studied production of the master" (Sm.). Canvas, 33 inches by 40^ inches.