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406 MEINDERT HOBBEMA SECT. left arm. Beyond them are a man, a woman, and a child. On the farther side of the pool a man walks to the right. Thick clouds in the sky. Signed in full ; canvas, 37^ inches by 50 inches. A copy, measuring 19^ inches by 26 inches, was in a sale at Berlin, May 8, 1906, No. 48. Engraved as a Ruisdael by A. Zingg. In the collection of Jacob Duval, acquired about the year 1804. In the collection of Guillaume Favre, acquired about the year 1824. In the collection of Leopold Favre, Geneva. 154. A WOODY LANDSCAPE. In the right and centre fore- ground, in deep shadow, is a marshy pool overgrown with water-plants ; the branches of a fallen tree lie in the water on the extreme right. On the farther bank is a thick dark wood, through which the sky is faintly seen low down ; some of the trees, especially to the right, have touches of autumn colouring. On the right an angler in a red coat sits on the bank, facing the spectator. To the left of the pool and wood is a country road with hedges, along which a man and a woman walk to the left. The man is in brown, with a high hat, and carries a stick ; the woman has a white cap and apron, a red bodice, and a blue skirt. Beyond them to the left is a cornfield in sunlight, with trees beyond, a cottage to the right of the trees, and a church steeple on the horizon to the right of the cottage. Nearer the centre distance, across fields, are three cottages amid trees. Blue sky, with greyish clouds. Warm in tone. Genuine, but much repainted. [Possibly identical with 206.] Signed in full at foot ; panel, 24^ inches by 33^ inches. In the collection of Archibald M'Lellan, Glasgow, bought by the city in May 1856 ; it was seen there by Waagen in 1854 (ii. 288). In the Glasgow Art Gallery, 1908 catalogue, No. 467. 155. WOODY LANDSCAPE. In the right foreground is an inn of red brick, plastered in part, with a red-tiled roof and a gable in the centre of the front above the doorway. Projecting over the door is the sign-board, a swan, with a wreath hung over it. A woman stands at the open door, and a man with a pipe leans at a window to the left of her. In front of the inn to the left is a clump of great trees on the edge of a ditch separating the inn from the high road. The ditch is crossed by a wooden bridge with a high lattice gate in the middle of it. A man in a blue cap, red jacket, dark breeches, and white stockings is crossing the bridge from the road ; a dog runs after him. Behind the trees a lofty tower is partly seen to the left and a high-pitched roof to the right presumably the church next to the inn. The high road, bordered with trees and running from the front to the back, fills the left half of the picture. The sunlight falls from the left, casting the shadows of the trees on the path in the centre. The nearest tree in front is a dead stump. In the road to the left a man and a woman with a child between them walk away. The man wears a red jacket, light breeches, and a brown hat ; the woman has a white cap, blue bodice, and brown skirt. Beyond them to the left is a low, reddish wall with an archway approached by a brick bridge over the narrow ditch to