xni JACOB VAN RUISDAEL 321 Near a heap of lime in front is a man in red. A genuine picture of an unusual subject. The rushes and grass in front are characteristic. Signed in the left centre with the monogram ; panel, 15^ inches by 17 1 inches. In the collection of Earl Howe, Gopsall. 1033. SUNSET (OR MOONRISE) IN A WOOD. A shep- herd, seen from the back, drives his sheep down a road in the centre, which passes through a shallow pool in front. To the left, on the top of a rocky bank, is a cottage in the shadow of trees. At the roadside, to the right, is a clump of lofty trees, on the outskirts of a wood which fills the right middle distance, and stretches across the landscape to the left, with hills beyond, above which the sun is setting (or the moon is rising) in a luminous sky. The light falls on the road and the pool. In the catalogue this picture is only " ascribed to " Ruisdael. Signed in full on the left ; canvas, 35 inches by 30 inches. In the Wallace Collection, London, 1908 catalogue, No. 247. 1 0330. A Village Landscape in Moonlight. Sale. Johan Engelman, Haarlem, July 16, 1782, No. 68. 1033^. A River Landscape in Moonlight. Near a village with figures walking. In the middle distance, near trees, are a church and cottages. Canvas on panel, 23^ inches by 30^ inches. Sale. J. Odon, Amsterdam, September 6, 1784, No. 73. 1033^. A Moonlit Landscape. A wooded landscape with a village and a still pool in moonlight. Fishermen. Very true to nature. Canvas, 21 inches by 24 inches. Sale. Amsterdam, August 8, 1804, No. 161. 1033^. A Moonlit Landscape. A view of a village with cottages, high trees, and figures by a still pool, on which the moon shines. Canvas, 2i| inches by 24^ inches. Sale. Jos. Valette and others, Amsterdam, August 26, 1807, No. 186. ic>33<?. A Very Fine Moonlit Landscape. Panel, 5^ inches by 6 inches. Sale. Utrecht, April 22, 1811, No. 97. 1033/1 Landscape in Moonlight. Of good quality. Not to be identified with either 253*7 or 490, which are still in the Radnor collection. In the collection of the Earl of Radnor, Longford Castle, 1857 (Waagen, Suppl. 355)- 1034. A View on a River in Moonlight. Sm. Suppl. 13. Two boats lie near the bank. Beyond are three men round a fire on the out- skirts of a wood. Described by Sm. from a print by J. J. Strudt. VOL. IV Y
