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432 MEINDERT HOBBEMA SECT. the houses, the church, and the great square tower of a town. In the centre smoke rises behind the trees, apparently from a village. In the distance are other figures. Felled trees and bushes fill the foreground, which lies half in shadow, while the middle distance is in full sunlight. A bright sky. Signed on the left ; canvas, 19^ inches by 26 inches. Exhibited at DUsseldorf, 1904, No. 323. Sales. Taets van Amerongen, Amsterdam, July 3, 1805, No. 20 (1075 florins, Roos). Baron d'Armant, London, 1825 (j8 : 153.). In the collection of the Due d'Arenberg, Brussels, Burger's 1859 catalogue, No. 24 ; it was there in 1835 (Sm.). 244. THE OUTSKIRTS OF A WOOD. Two persons come forward along a road in the centre, and cross a stream flowing diagonally across the road. On the right a man walks over a bridge. Other figures are on the road to the left and near a cottage amid trees in the centre. Through the trees to the left is a vista of the distance. Blue sky with clouds here and there. There are in all ten figures, by Hobbema himself. Signed in full on a piece of timber in the left centre ; panel, 20| inches by 26^ inches. Exhibited at the Royal Academy Winter Exhibition, London, 1889, No. 112. Sale. Jan Gildemeester, Amsterdam, June II, 1800, No. 75 (2160 florins, C. Buys). In the collection of the Marquess of Hertford, London. In the Wallace Collection, London, 1908 catalogue, No. 164. 245. THE BRIDGE OVER THE STREAM. Sm. 46, and Suppl. 14. In the right middle distance is a cottage hidden amid trees, with a hut to the right of it. Beyond it rises a church spire. A winding path leads from the cottage to a bridge, with a wooden railing at one side, in the right foreground. A man with a stick in his left hand, accompanied by a dog, crosses the bridge. To the left is a distant view, with sunlit patches amid clumps of trees. On a road intersecting the landscape a man and a woman stand conversing ; beyond them are two other figures. Bright sunlight. [Pendant to 176.] Signed in full ; panel, 9^ inches by i inches. Sales. P. I. Hogguer, Amsterdam, August 18, 1817, No. 22 (834 florins, Hulswit). Sir Charles Bagot, London, July 18, 1836 (^220 : ios., Seguier for Lord Lansdowne). In the collection of the Marquess of Lansdowne, Bowood, 1854 (Waagen, iii. 161). In the possession of the Paris dealer C. Sedelmeyer, " Catalogue of 300 Paintings," 1898, No. 62. In the collection of the late Rodolphe Kann, Paris, 1907 catalogue, No. 48 ; bought as a whole in 1907 by the London dealers Duveen Brothers. In the possession of the dealers Duveen Brothers, Paris.