xiv MEINDERT HOBBEMA 385 In the Dutuit collection, Rouen. In the Petit Palais des Beaux-Arts, Paris, Dutuit bequest, 1907 catalogue, No. 905. 91. LANDSCAPE WITH MILLS. On the left an undershot water-mill with another building stands on a bank beyond a reedy pool. To the left of the mill is a road leading to the pool, with two figures. In the right foreground, on a road leading away, a man and a woman stand conversing. To right and left are tall trees. Under one tree a man, in a black coat with a broad white collar and a hat, sits reading a paper. [Compare 90.] Signed in full in the right foreground; panel, i8| inches by 24^ inches. In the possession of the Paris dealer C. Sedelmeyer, "Catalogue of 100 Paintings," 1894, No. 16. In the collection of A. Lehmann, Paris. 92. THE WATER-MILLS. A repetition, in a broad picture, of 89 (at the Louvre). The wheel, however, is seen more from the front. Sunny grey sky with bluish clouds. A sportsman in red ; on the road to the right are cattle with a herdsman. The figures are by Wouwerman, according to Michel. A broad picture. In the collection of Baroness James de Rothschild. In the collection of the late Baron Alphonse de Rothschild, Paris. 93. THE WATER-MILL. Sm. Suppl. 20. A wooded landscape, with a water-mill and its staging in the centre. In the right foreground is a pool overgrown with water-plants, from which a road leads round to the opposite side, where a man and a woman stand conversing. Beyond the mill are trees, with an opening to the right ; here a woman is crossing a bridge, and there are two other figures. Fine sunlight. [Compare 90. Pendant to 131.] Panel, 20^ inches by 26 inches. In the collection of the Earl of Egremont, Petworth, 1842 (Sm.). In the collection of Lord Leconfield, Petworth, No. 380. 94. A WOODED LANDSCAPE WITH A WATER-MILL. In the left centre foreground is a lofty oak with two small trees. Be- yond these to the left is an undershot water-mill, built on a brick founda- tion, with the roof partly thatched and partly tiled. The great mill-wheel, with its timber framework on three supports, is at the nearer end of the building, which is boarded up to a point above the wheel. Between the mill and the edge of the picture is a view of sunlit country. To the right of the oak a road winds away to a wood, which fills more than the right half of the middle distance. At the right edge of the picture, the tower and choir of a church rise above the trees. In the left foreground is the mill-pool with a reedy bank. In the centre are two horsemen, with two dogs running in front ; one man, in yellow, rides a grey horse, while the other, in red, is on a bay horse. In the right foreground a traveller with a bundle on his back sits, leaning his right hand on his VOL. iv 2 c
