xiii JACOB VAN RUISDAEL 267 856. The Farm. On a steep hill to the left stands a thatched cottage in golden sunlight, partly hidden by various slender trees. An oak hangs over it ; the roots of the tree are almost bare and cling to the fence which is reflected in a torrent flowing over the foreground. On a hill to the right are sheep. In the middle distance is a cornfield. The sunlight penetrates with difficulty through thick clouds. Panel, 20 inches by 26^ inches. Sale. Prince Demidoff, San Donate, March 15, 1880, No. 1149. 856^7. The Entrance to a Village. Five peasants on a road. Engraved. Sale. Barnett, London, 1881 (441, Lesser). 856^. A Wooded Landscape with a Cottage. Panel, 15^ inches by 16 inches. Sale. E. C. Smith and others, Amsterdam, July 4, 1882, No. 55. 857. A Village under Trees. Lofty trees and bushes fill the whole middle distance. Amid the trees are the church and the houses of a village. To the left of the hilly foreground are woodcutters ; two peasants. Signed in full on the right at foot j canvas, 12 inches by 16^ inches. Sale. C. Grote and others,. Cologne, June 7, 1886, No. 146 (1600 mark, Bayersdorfer). 858. A FORTIFIED COUNTRY - HOUSE BESIDE A LAKE. Hilly country overgrown with bushes. To the right is a church. In front are cows. Heavy clouds in the sky. Monotonous and dark. The lighting is like moonshine, but it is too clear and the sky too blue. Signed in full on the left at foot j canvas, 13^ inches by 16^ inches. Exhibited at Leipzig, 1889, No. 200. Then in the collection of Alfred Thieme, Leipzig ; but not noticed in Bode's 1900 catalogue. 859. A Cottage on a Hill. To the right, beyond a stream flow- ing to the front, cottages stand amid trees on the slope of a hill. Peasants by the stream. In the left foreground is a stone wall. Signed with the monogram ; panel, 19^ inches by 26 inches. Exhibited at Berlin, 1890, No. 252. Then in the collection of Otto Wesendonck, Berlin. 860. LANDSCAPE WITH A HOUSE. A house stands to the left on the steep bank of a stream flowing from the middle distance, where a bridge crosses it at a river. On the bridge is a woman. In front of the house is a small tree apparently a fir to the right and beyond are lofty oaks. On a little footpath in the middle distance sits a man with his back to the spectator ; beside him to the right is a dog. Signed on the left in the landscape ; panel, 19^ inches by 27^ inches. Exhibited in the Rupprecht Exhibition, Munich, 1889, No. 1 6. Sate. H. Th. Hoch, Munich, September 19, 1892, No. 182.
