i88 JACOB VAN RUISDAEL SECT. 595. A Wooded Landscape with a Stream, a Shepherd, and Sheep. In the left centre is a group of sunlit oaks. Between the nearer trees flows a little stream. Through the trees is a shepherd's hut, with the shepherd himself beyond. To the right cattle graze. In the dis- tance are wooded hills. Cloudy sky. Signed with the monogram on the right at foot; panel, 2i| inches by 29 inches. Sale. Paul Mersch, Berlin, March i, 1905, No. 95. 596. A WOODED LANDSCAPE. In the centre of the middle distance is a tree-trunk broken half-way up. Beyond to the left are two great oaks. Farther back to the right three sheep are grazing. In the left background is the edge of a wood ; in the right background are high hills. In the extreme left foreground is a watercourse with water-lilies. Signed with the monogram j panel, 21 inches by 28 inches. In the possession of the Paris dealer C. Sedelmeyer, "Catalogue of 100 Paintings," 1905, No. 32. In the possession of the Paris dealer J. Depret. 596^7. The Edge of a Wood. Horsemen and foresters with a dog on a road. In front, beside a pool, sits a peasant. On the right, between the trees, is a group of cottages. 38 inches by 48 inches. Sale. London, May 12, 1906, No. 134. 596^. A Wooded Landscape. Peasants on a road near water. 24! inches by 29 inches. Sale. London, July 20, 1906, No. 62. 597. A Wooded Landscape with a Pool. A sandy and un- dulating landscape with a scattered oak wood. Almost in the centre fore- ground is a small pool ; the sandy bank to the left is rather high ; along the right bank is a pathway, at the side of which a peasant sits fishing. Through the trees is a distant sunlit plain, with sheep grazing. Beyond is a village church. On the slope of the hill to the left a peasant with sheep goes towards a plateau. A cloud with silvery edge in the clear sky. Panel, 12 inches by 16 inches. Sale. J. de Geel Bennigsen and others, Amsterdam, March 12, 1907, No. 839. 598. A STAG-HUNT. On the right, across a little torrent, are two great trees, the beginning of a wood. In the left foreground a sports- man, who kneels, has just fired at a stag standing to the left near the trees ; a hound approaches. In the extreme left foreground a woman sits on the grass, with a basket on her right arm. A woodcutter with an axe over his left shoulder walks to the left. In a plain in the distance two horsemen gallop forward ; their hounds run in front of them. Beyond are hills under a sky full of grey clouds. Two birds of prey fly above. The figures are by Philips Wouwerman. Broad in style.
