xiii JACOB VAN RUISDAEL 457. A WOOD SCENE WITH A POOL. A pool in shadow fills the foreground. To the left, beneath leafy trees on a bank, are two anglers. To the right in a wood is another sunlit pool connected with the first. Blue sky with clouds. Of the middle period. Precisely the same composition occurs in 464, but the figures are slightly different. Canvas, 25 inches by 30 inches. In the collection of Sir James Erskine of Torrie. In the National Gallery of Scotland, Edinburgh, 1909 catalogue, No. 27 ; it was there in 1854 (Waagen, iii. 273). 458. A Wooded Landscape. A stream flows through a ravine, the right bank of which is steep and rocky and overgrown with bushes. To the left is a great old oak. Behind it is an oak wood, in the shade of which is a shepherd with his flock. Farther to the left, in front of an oak wood, is a cornfield, past which a peasant and a woman are walking. In the foreground is a tree-stump. In the centre foreground is a shepherd with white stockings. To the right of him are two dogs, one white and the other a dark greyish-brown with white spots. Signed with the monogram on the right at foot ; canvas, 39 inches by 52 inches. In the possession of the Paris dealer F. Kleinberger. In the Elberfeld Town Museum. 459. A VIEW IN A WOOD WITH A BRIDGE. Dark and mostly repainted, especially the sky. Signed with the monogram in the centre at foot ; panel, 23^ inches by 25! inches. In the collection of Prince von Salm, who also formerly owned the pendant. In the Epinal Museum, 1880 catalogue, No. 116. 460. A WOODED AND HILLY LANDSCAPE. Sm. 167. In a depression between two sand-hills is a stagnant pool. The sand- hills are covered with bushes and a few leafy trees which lead to a denser wood at the back. In the right foreground a fallen beech stem lies diagonally across the path. A woman, leading a boy, wades through the water, followed by a dog. Farther away on the road is a traveller. Signed in full on the left at foot ; canvas, 2o| inches by 23 inches. In the inventory of the estate of Johann Matthias de Neufville Gontard, 1794. Acquired for Frankfort in 1817. In the Stadel'sches Kunstinstitut, Frankfort-on-Main, 1900 catalogue, No. 270 (valued by Sm. in 1835 at I2 fy> 461. THE BANKS OF A LAKE IN A WOOD. In a wooded landscape lies a small lake, with a thick wood of high and leafy trees along its farther bank. By the reedy shore on the right a road leads between a clump of beeches and a solitary oak, under which three peasants rest. Two swans swim to the left. Light clouds in the sky. Formerly attributed to Dubois but bought as a Ruisdael, whose signature has since been found on the canvas.
