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xni JACOB VAN RUISDAEL 57 1 66. A WATER-MILL WITH TWO WHEELS. Sm. Suppl. 100. The mill forms the left half of the picture, with high trees to the left and at the back. The narrower side of the building is turned to the front j close under the roof is a trough on four posts, which leads the water to the right, where it runs away in two small cascades. To the right of the mill is a solitary tree. To the right of it a man mends a cask ; two boys watch him. Farther back are two sheep and some willows. At the right edge of the picture is a bush. The bank in front is strengthened with boards and piles. A stream, with reeds to the right, fills the whole foreground. Signed in full in the water in the left foreground ; canvas, 22 inches by 26 inches. Sale. London, 1837 (50 : 8s., Sm.). In the collection of A. van der Hoop, Amsterdam, 1842 (Sm.). In the possession of the Cologne dealer Bourgeois. In the collection of L. Nardus, Suresnes. In the possession of the Paris dealer S. Bourgeois. 166*. Landscape with a Water-Mill. Exhibited at Amsterdam, 1845, No. 74, by an unknown lender. 167. A Water-Mill in Norway. See Sm. Suppl. 23. On high rocks to the left are brick cottages with a square tower amid tall firs and other trees, as well as a water-mill under which the water rushes down into a stream in front. Below, by a bridge, is a wooden hut, near which is a group of four men. On the right bank, farther back, are other cottages and trees. Through the defile flows a rushing stream, hemmed in by rocks, and forming a waterfall in front. In the distance are mountains. Cloudy sky with sunbeams. [Compare 203.] Canvas, 40 inches by 34 inches. In the collection of Robert Pigoux. Bought by Sm. in 1847 and sold to Joseph Sanders, Taplow House ; it was there in 1856 (Waagen, Suppl. 291). Sale. Joseph Sanders, London (220 : IDS., Nieuwenhuys). 167*. Landscape with a Water-Mill. And a church. Sale. John P. Anderson, London, May 15, 1847 (509, Norton). 1 68. A Water-Mill. Sm. 142, and Suppl. 73. On the right is a picturesque mill, with a wooden house roofed with red tiles and patches of thatch. The water runs through a trough on to the mill-wheel and then down another trough into the mill-pool flowing along the front. On the left is a high rugged bank, fenced at the water's edge with hurdles and covered in part with bushes. Behind the mill are clumps of trees, which, with others, bound the view. A fine cloudy sky. An " excellent picture, painted in the artist's finest manner" (Sm.). [Possibly identical with 145 and 158*'.] Canvas, 25 inches by 27 J inches. Sale. London, 1834 G IO 7 : 2S -)-