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360 MEINDERT HOBBEMA SECT. 21. A Wooded Landscape with a Castle. Along a stream is a row of fine oaks. To the left is a castle with towers in the style of the seventeenth century, brightly illumined by the setting sun. In the fore- ground are figures and ducks. Between the trees in the middle distance is seen a stretch of pasture. Canvas, 17 inches by 2o| inches. Sale. L. Casterman and others, Antwerp, July 19, 1858, No. 71. 21 a. A Wooded River Landscape with Ruins and Figures. Sale. J. Du Gray, London, 1872 (120 : 155., Palmer). lib. A Wooded Landscape with a Ruin. Figures. Signed j canvas, 30 inches by 24^ inches. Sale. Amsterdam, March 30, 1874, No. 38. 21 c. Landscape with a Castle. Sale. A. Sils, Antwerp, March 21, 1882, No. 115. 21 d. Landscape with a Castle and a Church in the Distance. Lofty gnarled trees with dense foliage form on the left the outskirts of a wood, through which a broad sandy road leads from the right. On the right is a view down into a low-lying wooded plain with a castle and a church. Doubly signed ; panel, 26 inches by 19 inches. Probably identical with the landscape mentioned by Parthey (i. 590), No. 33. Sale. Von Clave-Bouhaben, Cologne, June 4, 1894, No. 249. 22. A RIVER LANDSCAPE WITH A STONE BRIDGE AND A CASTLE. The river fills the right-hand corner and stretches away into the distance ; in front are two swans on the water. In the left foreground is a clump of great trees ; to the left is a house, with two men and a child standing in front. Farther away are two figures near a wood. A stone bridge of two arches crosses the stream in the middle distance, where a castle with two high chimneys and a tower stands in a sunlit glade amid trees. Panel, 20 inches by 27 inches. In the collection of G. Morant, London, 1832. In the collection of W. F. B. Massey-Mainwaring, London. In the possession of the Paris dealer C. Sedelmeyer, "Catalogue of 100 Paintings," 1899, No. 22. 23. A RED BRICK CHURCH AMID TREES. In the middle distance an old Gothic village church stands in a low walled en- closure, broken on the left by a high ruined archway. From the foreground the village street leads on the right past the church to the distance, where trees and a cottage are seen in a glade. In the left foreground is a sheet of water ; a boy stands near it in the right centre. On the right a peasant converses with a woman who has a child with her. The church was identified in the sale-catalogue as that of Brederode, for no reason whatever.