238 JACOB VAN RUISDAEL SECT. A river flows from the right background to the left foreground. Beyond it, at the foot of a wooded hill to the left, stands a ruined monastery. In the right foreground are trees; the nearest is dead. In the centre foreground goats are feeding. On a rock to the right sits a herdsman playing the flute. Under the trees on the extreme right is a woman in a straw hat. The picture represents the same scene as in 753 (at Dresden), but was probably painted some years earlier perhaps about 1649 an ^ the scene was viewed from a somewhat different standpoint. The small study, 619 (National Gallery, London), agrees in composition with these two pictures. The goats are possibly by A. van de Velde. The Kums sale catalogue ascribed the figures to Berchem; this is possible but it is not easily proved, as they are very small. In any case the figures are not by Ruisdael himself. Signed with the monogram on the right; panel, 18 inches by 24^ inches. Exhibited at the Burlington Fine Arts Club, London, 1900, No. 54. Sales. R. Papin, Paris, March 28, 1873. E. Kums, Antwerp, May 17, 1898, No. 127 (10,000 francs, Colnaghi). In the collection of H. J. Pfungst, London. Acquired in London in 1901 by the Kaiser Friedrich Museumsverein. In the Kaiser Friedrich Museum, Berlin, 1906 catalogue, No. 8846. 749. RUINS IN A WOOD. Sm. 22, and Suppl. 65. In the right middle distance are the ruins of a Romanesque building. In front of it sits an artist, seen from the back; beside him to the right stands another man. On the left, close to the ruins, are beeches; in front to the left a great beech is almost as high as the building. On the left flows a little stream which forms a low waterfall in front. On the bank to the left, at the edge of the picture, are a tree-stump and the foliage of another tree. Signed with the monogram on the left at foot; panel, 2o| inches by 26J inches. Exhibited at Berlin, 1890, No. 247. Sales. Gerard Braamcamp, Amsterdam, July 31, 1771, No. 199 (145 florins, P. Fouquet). W. Hastings, London, 1840 (128 : 2S.). In the collection of O. Wesendonck, in the Kaiser Friedrich Museum, Berlin. 750. LANDSCAPE WITH THE RUINS OF A FORT. Sm. Suppl. 10. In the right foreground of a dune landscape are the ruins of a fort with a bastion, overgrown with bushes and trees. It is reflected in still water in front. In the left middle distance, beyond a cornfield, rises a village church (that of Beverwijk?) amid trees. To the right of it, in a distant sunlit plain, stands a wind-mill. The picture was painted from the same spot as 758 (National Gallery, London), but differs in some details. Canvas, 15! inches by 17! inches. Sales. Kalkbrenner, Paris, 1835 (3000 francs). G. T. Braine, London, 1857 (132 : 6s., Nieuwenhuys).
