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366 MEINDERT HOBBEMA SECT. Signed in full on the right at foot ; panel, 2o| inches by 26 inches. Acquired in 1792 from De Vigneux. In the Aeltere Pinakothek, Munich, 1904 catalogue, No. 570. 41. The Pool. A flooded road fills the foreground, and leads away on the right to a Gothic church. A thatched cottage overgrown with vine stands in front of the church. To the left are tall oaks almost touching the upper edge of the frame ; beneath them are two thatched cottages. On the road stand a man and a woman in a red skirt with a boy at her side. Dense white clouds in the sky beyond the church. The sunlight shines through the trees and falls here and there on the road. Signed in full on the right at foot ; panel, 20| inches by 26^ inches. Exhibited at the Hudson-Fulton Celebration, Metropolitan Museum, New York, 1909, No. 46 ; wrongly identified in the catalogue with Sm. 39, which is 45. In the collection of William T. Blodgett, New York. 42. COTTAGE AMONG THE TREES. Sm. 86. A path winds from the centre foreground to the distance. A man with a stick on his shoulder walks forward ; beyond him are a man, a woman, and a child. To the left of the path are four cottages separated by trees. In the left foreground is a clump of great trees, whose spreading branches fill a large part of the picture. On the ground beneath lie tree trunks and branches. Near them sits a woman, with a man in a red jacket reclining at her feet. Another man with a stick stands near. A man with a boy stands in front of the second cottage. To the right of the path is a gabled cottage, standing back among the trees. In the right foreground is a fence with a felled tree. Blue sky with white clouds. [Sm. mentions also a man on a grey horse with a dog.] Signed in full on the left at foot, and dated 1665 ; panel, 30 inches by 43! inches. Exhibited at the Royal Academy Winter Exhibition, London, 1882, No. 80 ; and at the Hudson-Fulton Celebration, Metropolitan Museum, New York, 1909, No. 49. In the collection of William Blathwayt, near Bristol, 1835 (Sm.). In the collection of G. W. Blathwayt, 1882. Sale. W. T. Blathwayt, Hope Edwardes, and others, London, April 27, 1901, No. 98. In the collection of Henry C. Frick, New York, 1908 catalogue, No. 19. 43. A ROAD PASSING WOODEN COTTAGES. The cottages stand between two great trees. To the right of the road is a man in dark clothes with a stick on his shoulder. Another road leads away to the right ; beside this, in the centre, sit two figures in a vivid red, who have been apparently painted in by a later hand. Panel, 20^ inches by 26^ inches. In the collection of Mrs. Jesup, New York. 44. COTTAGES AMID TREES, WITH A CHURCH. Sm. 14. In the centre a road leads away into the distance, with lofty trees on either side. In the left foreground is a large cottage. Another lies to