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270 JACOB VAN RUISDAEL SECT. Panel, 13 inches by 13^ inches. Sale. Vera Koudacheff and others, London, December I, 1906, No. 46. 873. A COTTAGE BY A POOL. A pool fills almost the whole width of the foreground, except for a narrow strip of road on the right. On the water in the left centre are two swans. On the far bank are sheep. The bank slopes gently upward and is covered with trees. Amid these, in the right middle distance, is a house with a little shed built on to it in the right foreground. A road leads from the house to the right fore- ground ; half-way down comes a man. Lower down is a small wooden gate. Signed with the monogram on the right at foot ; canvas, 25^ inches by 32 inches. Sale. C. Sedelmeyer, Paris, May 25, 1907, No. 166 (4400 francs). In the possession of the Paris dealer J. Depret. 874. A Peasant driving a Bull across a Stream. Sm. Suppl. 20. On the left are a house, a wooden hut, and trees. Near the house is a man followed by a dog. Bare hills along the river. Described by Sm. from an engraving by Duplessis Berteau. 875. Cottages. Sm. Suppl. 18. To the right on rising ground are two old cottages and the gable end of a third. Part of a fence stands in front of the nearest cottage : some faggots lie in front of another cot- tage. On the bank of a pool in front are two tree-stumps and weeds. [Pendant to 727.] Described by Sm. from an etching by Primavisi. 876. A SANDY ROAD. The road leads to the right across the dunes. On the left is a little pool with bushes. On the road are a man and a dog. Above, on the dunes, are two men. Signed in full on the road ; panel, 12^ inches by 17 inches. Exhibited at Amsterdam, 1867, No. 169 ; at The Hague, 1890, No. 92. In the collection of W. P. van Lennep, Amsterdam. In the collection of Madame Messchert van Vollenhoven, born Van Lennep, Amsterdam, who presented it to the town. Lent by the town of Amsterdam to the Rijksmuseum in 1892. In the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, 1907 catalogue, No. 2073. 877. Dunes with Scattered Trees. In the left foreground, at the foot of a great ash, are three men. On the right a road with deep ruts bends sharply to the right in the middle distance. To the left of it sits a man with a basket on his back. Cottages in the centre of the middle dis- tance and on the left edge of the picture. Signed in full at foot in the right centre, and dated 1647 ; panel, i inches by 1 6 inches. In the Holscher collection, Mtihlheim on Rhine. In the Stumpf collection, Berlin. 878. A SANDPIT. A man in red shovels sand into a cart drawn by a bay horse. To the left, in front of a white bank, are two other figures;