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xin JACOB VAN RUISDAEL 41 1646-48, wrongly attributed to Salomon van Ruisdael. In the style of the two early pictures at the Hermitage (895, 896). Signed with the monogram in the right centre ; panel, 24 inches by 32 inches. In the collection of the Marquess of Zetland, Aske Hall, Richmond, Yorkshire. 107. A WOODED AND HILLY LANDSCAPE WITH A CORNFIELD. Sm. 299 and 331. The cornfield is in a depression in the right middle distance. Beyond it are the houses and towers of a town. On the extreme right walks a man with a dog. In the left centre fore- ground is a great oak whose spreading boughs rise to the top of the picture ; the trunk, from which the bark has been partly stripped, is of a reddish hue. Under the tree sits a woman. To the left is an uphill road, partly in sunlight ; a woman goes up the road carrying a bundle on her head. The landscape reminds one of the German Mittelgebirge. Canvas, 42 inches by 55 inches. Engraved by De Saulx ; see Filheul et Landon, vii. No. 442. In the collection of the Duke of Brunswick, Salzdahlum, acquired 1738. Taken by the French invaders, exhibited at the Louvre, Paris, where it was valued in 1816 (at j6o), and afterwards restored. In the Brunswick Gallery, 1900 catalogue, No. 376. 108. LANDSCAPE WITH A CORNFIELD. In the midst of a rolling plain stands a church with a square tower. In the left fore- ground is a cornfield ; beyond it is a little pool. On the right a road winds away into the distance ; on it are several figures. Signed in full on the left at foot ; canvas, 15 inches by 14^ inches. Exhibited at Bremen in 1904, No. 304 ; and in 1905. In the collection of August Liirman, Bremen. 109. LANDSCAPE WITH A SUNLIT CORNFIELD NEAR THE SEA. It reminds one of 124, at Rotterdam. In the Kilenyi collection, Budapest. 1 10. A CORNFIELD. Sm. 321. A cornfield with sheaves of wheat lies on the slope of a hill in full sunlight. On the hill are trees; on the top is a house. Two figures. Cloudy sky. Signed on the right with the monogram ; canvas, 26 inches by 31 inches. Exhibited at Manchester, 1857, No. 1023 ; and at the Royal Academy Winter Exhibition, London, 1879, No. 118. In the collection of the Duke of Newcastle, Clumber ; where it was in 1835 (Sm.). in. DUNES WITH SHEAVES IN THE CORNFIELDS. Rolling dunes fill the whole foreground and middle distance. A road with deep ruts runs from the right foreground towards the centre. On the road a man and a boy walk away ; farther back is a woman who comes forward. In the left foreground is the corner of a field with sheaves of corn ; in the right middle distance is another field with heaped-up sheaves.