208 JACOB VAN RUISDAEL SECT. Signed with the monogram ; panel, 17^ inches by 27 inches. In the collection of Prince Liechtenstein, Vienna, 1885 catalogue, No. 695. In the collection of Prince Liechtenstein, Schloss Feldsberg. 658. LANDSCAPE WITH A SLUICE. On the left is an avenue of trees, with eight figures. In front is a stream with a sluice and a wooden bridge. Beyond is a little fir wood, above which rises a high- tiled roof with a chimney. Signed in full ; canvas, 26 inches by 21 inches. Exhibited at Dtisseldorf, 1886, No. 287. In the collection of Baron Albert von Oppenheim, Cologne, 1904 catalogue, No. 37. 659. THE SLUICE. A river landscape with trees and an angler on a hedge. To the right of the bridge is a sluice. In the right fore- ground lies a tree-trunk. Signed with the monogram on the right at foot ; panel, 19! inches by 25! inches. In the possession of the London dealer Martin H. Colnaghi ; bought from him, 1895. In the collection of William Asch, London. 660. THE BRIDGE. Sm. 219. A well -wooded landscape. High trees to the left. In the foreground is a picturesque brick bridge over a rapid stream. In the distance is a cottage. An early work. Panel, about 24 inches by 26 inches. Sale. Duke of Bedford, London, 1827 (278 : 55., presumably bought in). In the collection of the Duke of Bedford, London. 66 1. A Little Wooden Bridge over a Rapid Stream. In the collection of James Morrison, London, 1854 (Waagen, ii. 261). In the collection of the late Charles Morrison, Basildon Park, Reading. 662. LANDSCAPE WITH A FARM. Sm. 115. Two pollard willows stand in the right foreground, near a boat with two men in it. On a little hill rising to the left towards a wood, a herdsman drives cows and sheep towards a bridge which leads over a stream to a red-tiled farmhouse amid trees. At the door of the house stands a woman. A boy is angling from the bridge. The figures and cattle are by A. van de Velde. Canvas, 18 inches by 22 inches. Etched in the Le Brun collection (Sm.) ? Formerly in the Hermitage Palace, St. Petersburg ; presented by the Emperor Paul I. to an unnamed friend (Sm.). Sale. Villers, Paris, March 30, 1812 (1405 francs). Imported into England, 1822, by Sm. (who paid 3300 francs for it). In a private collection presumably that of D. van der Schrieck at Louvain, 1835 (Sm.). Sale. D. van der Schrieck of Louvain, Brussels, April 8, 1861. No. 95 (19,000 francs, Marquess of Hertford).
