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xin JACOB VAN RUISDAEL 193 In the possession of the Hamburg dealer E. Harzen, who bequeathed it to the Kunsthalle. In the Hamburg Kunsthalle, 1887 catalogue, No. 153. 616. A STONE-QUARRY WITH A WOOD. On a hill amid trees stands a cottage. In the left distance is a small figure in red. To the left is a sunlit cloud. The light falls on the blocks of stone. Of the late period. The sunlit blocks remind one of "The Jews' Bury ing-ground" at Dresden (219). Signed with the monogram on the right at foot ; canvas, 26 inches by 28^ inches. In the collection of G. Martius, Kiel, since about 1890. 617. AN OAK WOOD. Great trees stand out to right and left in front. A fallen tree lies in the right foreground. On the road to the left a shepherd drives sheep forward. In the middle distance is a woodland pasture ; in the right sits a woman conversing with a shepherd who stands in front of her ; to the left, in front of the man, is a dog. Signed in full ; canvas, 26 inches by 34 inches. In the collection of Countess Reventlow, Copenhagen. 617^. A Wooded Landscape. Canvas, 39^ inches by 54 inches. Exhibited at Lemberg, 1909, No. 79. In the collection of Vladimir Lukasiewicz, Lemberg. 6 1 8. AN OLD OAK. In the centre of the middle distance stands an old oak. To the left is a dark wood. A road leads from the centre foreground, curving to the left round the oak, towards a cottage amid trees in the right distance. In the right foreground lies a tree-trunk. Three figures. Light cloudy sky. Signed with the monogram ; panel, 12^ inches by n^ inches. In the Wynn Ellis collection, bequeathed to the National Gallery in 1876. In the National Gallery, London, 1906 catalogue, No. 988. 619. THE BROKEN TREE. A tree with a white stem, grow- ing on a bank to the right, has fallen to the left, and lies across the foreground. Higher up the bank to the right stands a large tree ; other trees are on the hill in the right distance. To the left, across a plain, stands a large ruined building with a square tower, with trees to the right across the middle distance. Beyond the castle runs a large and lofty hill, filling more than the left half of the background. Light clouds in the sky. The same subject, from a slightly different standpoint, as "The Monastery" at Dresden (753). [Compare also 748.] Panel, 8 inches by n^ inches. In the Wynn Ellis collection, bequeathed to the National Gallery in 1876. In the National Gallery, London, 1906 catalogue, No. 991. 619^. SKIRTS OF A FOREST. A man sits at the roadside in front. A woman with a child stops to speak to him. To the right is a felled tree. Trees in the distance. VOL. iv o