xiii JACOB VAN RUISDAEL 249 788. A WILD HILLY LANDSCAPE WITH CASTLES ON HILLS. In front is a river with bathers. An old bridge with several arches crosses the river. The catalogue inaccurately states that this is a landscape near Haarlem. It reminds one strongly of 664 (Louvre). The figures are wrongly attributed to Lingelbach. Signed with the monogram on the left at foot ; canvas, 20 inches by 24! inches. Sale. Edmond Huybrechts, Antwerp, May 12, 1902, No. 123 (7300 francs, P. Mersch). 788*7. Landscape with a Church. Houses and figures. Panel, 14 inches by n inches. Sales. Duke of Marlborough, London, 1848 (^84, Weston). Henry M. Weston and others, London, July 17, 1908, No. 98 (36 : 155., Sackville Gallery). 789. A COUNTRY HOUSE IN A NEGLECTED PARK. In the middle distance is a group of young people dancing. On the steps of the house, in the right distance, are figures. In front is a spring. To the right are two lofty firs. Signed in full on the right at foot ; canvas, 26 inches by 2O| inches. Sales. Ludwig I., King of Bavaria, 1830. Speth, Munich, 1856. Von Landauer, Stuttgart, 1866. In the Suermondt collection, Aachen, acquired as a whole in 1874 by the Berlin Museums. In the Kaiser Friedrich Museum store-room, 1906 catalogue, No. 885A. Lent in 1884 to Aachen. In the Suermondt Museum, Aachen, second supplementary catalogue of 1884, No. 207. 790. LANDSCAPE. On the left is a cottage, mostly hidden by a group of trees on a bank ; an old oak is most prominent. At the bend of a road, leading to the foot of the bank, two women and a man have halted. Near them is a cottage shaded by an oak with great branches. In the distance a church tower and several trees are seen against the blue sky. Signed in full on the right at foot, and dated 1649 5 panel, 20 inches by 26 inches. In the collection of the dowager Madame Van den Hecke-Baut de Rasmon, Antwerp, bequeathed to the museum in 1859. In the Antwerp Museum, 1905 catalogue, No. 320. 791. LANDSCAPE WITH GROUPS OF HOUSES. The houses are to left and right of a road winding through the centre. At the door of a house to the right is a woman. On the road is a man with a dog. Blue sky with clouds. Canvas, 19! inches by 24 inches. Exhibited in the Royal Academy Winter Exhibition, London, 1893, No. 82. In the collection of Earl Brownlow, Ashridge Park.
