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68 JACOB VAN RUISDAEL SECT. divided into three by two rocks in the water. Tree-trunks lie in the foaming torrent in front. In the left-hand bottom corner is a great rock with a tree-trunk lying on it. To the right and farther back is another rock. Signed in full on the right at foot ; canvas, 43! inches by 39 inches. A copy is in a private collection at Amsterdam. Engraved by J. A. Boland and W. Unger. Bought for the Museum in 1818. In the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, 1910 catalogue, No. 2076. 200. A LITTLE WATERFALL NEAR A COTTAGE AND SUNLIT ROCKS (or, A Rocky Landscape). In the left middle distance, on a low rocky bank, is a cottage with a tiled roof. At the foot of stone steps leading to the door a man stoops down. On the steps sits a woman, conversing with another woman who stands at the cottage door. To the right is a tree. To the left, farther back, is a thick wood, above which rise the gable and a window of another cottage. In front to the left is a tree, with a stump behind it to the right and the withered trunk lying on the right of the stump. In front to the right is a low waterfall amid boulders ; beyond it in the middle distance are steep cliffs in a harsh light. Two rocky banks are connected by a wooden bridge, at the farther end of which are two figures and a dog. Beyond is a wood, stretching away to the centre distance. In the middle is a view over a hilly landscape. Signed with the monogram on a stone to the right ; canvas, 43 inches by 54 inches. Purchased in 1833 from J. de Vries. In the collection of A. van der Hoop, Amsterdam ; bequeathed by him to Amsterdam in 1854. In the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, Van der Hoop bequest, 1910 catalogue, No. 2078. 201. NORWEGIAN LANDSCAPE WITH A MOUNTAIN STREAM. Sm. 236. In the left foreground is a clump of oaks, with a withered tree-trunk lying in front. Farther back, a mountain stream, coming from the middle distance, divides and flows over stones, forming little waterfalls, partly towards the right foreground and partly towards the left side. The bank beyond the left-hand arm is wooded. The bank beyond the right-hand arm in the immediate foreground is steep and bare. A single fir stands near a fir-stump. Half-way up the bank is a cottage, in front of which are a man, his wife, and their child, with several felled trees. Beyond, in the middle distance, are more firs and a leafy wood, with some sheep on the bank in front. To the right, beyond the wood, is the bare and lofty summit of the mountain. Twilight. Signed in full ; canvas, 43! inches by 54 inches. Exhibited with the Six collection, Amsterdam, 1900, No. 119. In the collection of Six van Hillegom, Amsterdam, 1835 (Sm.). In the Van Winter collection, Amsterdam. In the collection of J. Six, Amsterdam.