xiii JACOB VAN RUISDAEL 215 In the possession of the Paris dealer C. Sedelmeyer, " Catalogue of 300 Paintings," 1898, No. 174. Sale. Baron Konigswarter of Vienna, Berlin, November 20, 1906, No. 30 (20,600 mark). 679*7. A River Landscape with a Bridge. A farm. Panel, 8| inches by n inches. Sa/e. London, May 27, 1907, No. 137. 680. A WOODED RIVER-BANK. A sheet of water fills the whole foreground. Xo the left are two figures in a boat. To the right is a road with trees. To the left is a view of the distance. Near the water is a house, towards which several little figures hasten, taking refuge from a storm which comes up from the right. Signed with the monogram on the right at foot ; panel, 9^ inches by 13 inches. In the Kaiser Friedrich Museum, Berlin, 1906 catalogue, No. 885H ; acquired in 1896 from a Paris dealer. 681. TWO FISHERMEN ON A POOL. They are drawing their nets. To the left is a clump of trees in full leaf. In the right distance are cottages. Cloudy sky. [Possibly identical with 688.] Panel, 10 inches by 14 inches. Engraved. In the collection of Louis Andre Garnier, who bequeathed it to the museum. In the Besan9on Museum, 1886 catalogue, No. 431. 682. A HILLY RIVER LANDSCAPE. Sm. 225. A narrow river, on which is a small vessel, traverses the scene. On a sandy road to the left are two men ; beyond them is a hay-waggon. In the distance are barren hills. Signed ; 13^ inches by 16 inches. Sale. Lord Gwydyr, London, March 10, 1829 (53 : us.). In the collection of the Marquess of Lansdowne, Bowood ; it was there in 1835 (Sm.). 683. LANDSCAPE; A WOODED RIVER VALLEY WITH FISHERMEN. A dense wood fills the right half of the picture and stretches towards a river on the left. In front is a great oak with sunlight trunk. On the right edge of the picture is a smaller tree- trunk also in sunlight. In the left foreground is a low ruined tower. In front a river, overgrown with reeds, flows to the left middle distance, where it leads to the right and disappears amid the trees. On sandbanks in the river two fishermen are busy with their nets. To the left a third man is resting. Signed with the monogram on the right ; canvas, 24 inches by 32 inches. In the Thys collection, from which it was acquired in 1804 (for 700 francs). In the Brussels Museum, 1906 catalogue, No. 398.
