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412 MEINDERT HOBBEMA SECT. In the collection of Baron van Brienen van de Grootelindt, The Hague, 1835 (Sm.). Sale. G. Th. A. JV1., Baron van Brienen van de Grootelindt, Paris, May 8, 1865, No. 13 (90,000 francs, Marquess of Hertford). In the Wallace Collection, London, 1908 catalogue, No. 95. 169. LANDSCAPE NEAR A VILLAGE. Sm. 109. On rising ground to the right is a line of oaks, with a low cottage beyond. Farther back are two other cottages partly hidden by rising ground and trees. On the left is an open view, with a road winding round a cornfield in which sheaves are piled. A man and a woman come along the road. On the right is a group of three figures. Panel, io inches by 14^ inches. In the collection of Charles Bredel, London, 1835 (Sm.). In the collection of Lord Overstone, 1857 (Waagen, Suppl. 137). In the collection of Lady Wantage, London, 1905 catalogue, No. 104. 170. A WOOD WITH COTTAGES. From the centre distance a road winds in two curves through a wood to a hedge in front, where it bends round to the right. On the road are a man and a woman, in full face. In the sunlit distance a man walks away. A cottage to the right of the road, near the man. is also in sunlight. To the left, at the nearer bend of the road, is another cottage, with a woman leaning over the half- door. In the left foreground a great oak bends over to the left ; only the trunk and the right lower branches are visible. Panel, 12^ inches by 15^ inches. In the collection of S. Clenet, Paris. In the collection of Cusson-Durozier, Paris. In the possession of the Paris dealer F. Kleinberger. In the collection of Paul Baerwald, New York. 171. WOODED LANDSCAPE. Sm. 100, and Suppl. 18. The same scene as in 168 (Wallace). Here the cottage in the middle distance beyond the pool is somewhat more completely hidden by bushes. The outline of the trees is slightly altered, and the trees in the meadows in the right distance are differently disposed. The figures, too, are new. On the road, to the right, a man and a woman stand conversing. A man and a woman come from the wood behind them. An angler comes along the dyke. Another angler sits beside the nearer pool. [Pendant to 136.] A "splendid work" (Sm.). Signed in full on the right at foot, and dated 1663 ; canvas, 36 inches by 50 inches. Exhibited at the British Institution, London, 1840, 1851, and 1862 ; at Manchester, 1857, No. 767; at the Royal Academy Winter Exhibition, London, 1887, No. 59 ; at the Burlington Fine Arts Club, London, 1900, No. 24 ; and at the Hudson-Fulton Celebration, Metropolitan Museum, New York, 1909, No. 48. In the collection of Charles Cobbe, Dublin, 1835 (Sm.) ; said to have been bought by an ancestor of his in the middle of the eighteenth century ; sold by Cobbe in 1839 to the dealer Brown (for ^1000), and resold by Brown (for 3000) to R. S. Holford.