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xin JACOB VAN RUISDAEL 283 Dunes. A sandhill with scattered clumps of trees and bushes fills the right side and the front. On the top is a ruined watch-tower. In the left distance is the sea with a sailing-boat. In the sky here and there are heavy clouds. Signed in full on the left at foot ; panel, 15 inches by 20 inches. Sale. The widow Marie von Robert and others, Cologne, March 27, 1893, No. 258. 917. DUNES WITH A VILLAGE. In the foreground is the strongly lighted slope of a sandhill, with grassy edges. In the left fore- ground is a pool, from which a road with deep ruts leads to a village in the middle distance. On the road is a peasant with a boy. In the middle distance is a thatched cottage : to right and left are high trees. On the hill to the right is a hedge. Cloudy sky. Signed in full on the right at foot ; panel, i8| inches by 27! inches. Exhibited at Leipzig, 1889, No. 198 ; at Munich, 1895, No. 55. In the possession of the Paris dealer C. Sedelmeyer, " Catalogue of 300 Paintings," 1898, No. 172. Sale. Dr. M. Schubart, Munich, October 28, 1899, No. 61 (8100 mark, Kleinberger). In the possession of the Paris dealer F. Kleinberger. In the possession of the Paris dealer P. Mersch. 917^. Dunes. On a rainy day, the sun, breaking through the clouds, shines full on a sandy road which occupies the foreground and is lost amid trees in the distance. By the roadside to the right are two thatched cottages. At the door of the nearer cottage, around which are pastures, a waggon has drawn up ; the two horses are feeding. In front are a peasant, with a sack, and his son ; in front of them is a dog. Panel, 12 inches by 14 inches. Sales. J. H. Beissel, Brussels, April 6, 1875, No. 121. Myles Henry Contame, Brussels, 1886. Etienne le Roy, Brussels, April 27, 1893, No. 82. 918. DUNES. In the centre foreground is a grassy sandhill. A man with a basket on his back walks up the hill towards the right distance. Xo the left are bushy trees with thick undergrowth. Near the hill, to the right, is a stagnant pool. At the right edge of the picture are bushes. In the distance are sunlit dunes. Traces of a signature ; panel, 8 inches by 19 inches. Sale. M - and others, Amsterdam, February 23, 1904, No. 33 (80 florins). 918*7. Dunes. Figures and sheep here and there. To the right is a green hill with houses ; at the foot is a little pool. Beyond is a massive church tower. Cloudy sky. Canvas, 24^ inches by 16 inches. Sale. L. Weber, Brussels, March 12, 1906, No. 40. 919. DUNES. Through a little valley between sandhills is seen the sea with sailing-boats. Cloudy sky. A late work.