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44 JACOB VAN RUISDAEL SECT. In the collection of Maurice Kann, Paris. In the possession of the London dealers Duveen Brothers. In the collection of B. Altman, New York. 120. COTTAGE UNDER TREES WITH A CORNFIELD. Sm. 213. On the right is a thatched cottage with oak trees in full leaf behind it. At the door stands a woman looking to the right at a man and a child sitting on a bank. On this bank grows a hedge of flowering elder, which bounds a cornfield ; in the left centre an old wheel lies beside the bank. In the distance to the right is another cottage with trees. Blue sky with light clouds. A " beautiful picture . . . unusually rich and verdant in colour and careful in the finishing " (Sm.). [Compare 1074*, 1075*.] Signed with the monogram on the right at foot ; canvas, 22 inches by inches. Exhibited at Manchester, 1857; at the Royal Academy Winter Exhibition, London, 1885 ; and at the Hudson-Fulton Celebration at the Metropolitan Museum, New York, 1909, No. 108. In the collection of William Wells, Redleaf, 1835 (Sm.). Sale. W. Wells, London, May 12, 1848 (.273, Glendinning). Purchased from Wells by Sm. and sold to George Field in 1851. Sale. George Field, London, June 10, 1893, No. 33. In the possession of the Paris dealer C. Sedelmeyer, " Catalogue of 300 Paintings," 1898, No. 177. In the collection of Rodolphe Kann, Paris, 1907, No. 76 ; bought as a whole in August 1907 by the London dealers Duveen Brothers. In the collection of J. Pierpont Morgan, New York. 121. A CORNFIELD AT THE EDGE OF A WOpD. In the foreground is water. To the right is a cornfield, half hidden by bushes. The picture is enlivened by sheep and small figures, which are unimportant, though they are by Ruisdael himself. The sky contains large masses of cloud, which are effective because the picture is not too clearly lighted, but are somewhat hard. A fairly early work. Signed in full on the right at foot ; canvas, 41 inches by 58^ inches. Exhibited at Manchester, 1857, No. 711; and at the Royal Academy Winter Exhibition, London, 1902, No. loo. In the collection at Worcester College, Oxford. 122. A CORNFIELD IN A WOOD; A SHEPHERD WITH HIS FLOCK. A road runs from the left foreground towards a wood, in the middle of which lies a cornfield, surrounded by a hedge with a gate across the road. In front a dead tree lies on the road ; farther back sits a shepherd near his flock. To the left, amid the trees, is a cottage. The figures are by Ruisdael himself. The picture has darkened very much. Signed with the monogram on the left at foot ; canvas, 24 inches by 2o| inches. In the collection of Count Bruhl. In the Hermitage Palace, St. Petersburg, 1901 catalogue, No. 1149.