xiii JACOB VAN RUISDAEL 45 123. A CORNFIELD WITH SHEAVES OF CORN. The field lies on a slope ; above is a cottage. A man and woman, in shadow, are binding the sheaves. To the right is a distant vista. A man with a dog goes away to the right. Canvas, 25 inches by 29^ inches. In the collection of John G. Johnson, Philadelphia. 123*. COUNTRY ROAD. A hilly landscape with a cornfield. Round the field winds a road, on which are several very small figures. Clouds envelop the highest hill-tops. Canvas, 15! inches by 17! inches. In the collection of Sir Frederick Cook, Bart., Richmond, No. 181. 124. A CORNFIELD. A cornfield in full sunlight lies on a hill rising to the right, beyond which are two gnarled trees amid bushes near the front. At the edge of the field, to the left, peasants are resting. In the left background is still water, probably the Zuider Zee, with three boats. [Compare 109.] Signed in full in the left foreground ; canvas, 23 inches by 27^ inches. Sale. Boymans, Utrecht, August 31, 1811, No. C. 82. In the Boymans Museum, Rotterdam, 1907 catalogue, No. 262 (old No. 242). 124^. A Cornfield. Sale. Amsterdam, October 3, 1708, No. 6. 124^. Landscape with a Fine Cornfield. With trees. Light and sunny. Canvas, 18 inches by 2i| inches. Sale. Floris Bontekoning, Amsterdam, May 21, 1770, No. 10. 124^. Landscape with Cornfields. To the left are trees. In the centre, farther back, are a church and cornfields. Several good figures and sheep. An open distance and a fine sky. Panel, 18 inches by 25 inches. Sale. J. F. Beschey, Antwerp, August 21, 1786, No. 47 (112 florins, Beekmans). 125. An Open Landscape with Cornfields. Sm. 63. To the left is a group of trees. To the right a river intersects the whole land- scape. In the broken foreground are three peasants. Canvas, 22 inches by 26 inches. Sale. Marin, Paris, May 22, 1790 (851 francs). 125*7. Cornfields. In a fine landscape with sandhills. Canvas, 21 inches by 27 inches. Sale. Maria Theresia Wittebol and De Labistraeten, Antwerp, June 19, 1804, No. 148 (105 florins). 125^. A Wooded Landscape with Cottages and Cornfields. Sm. 107. A woman is binding sheaves. Sale. London, 1807 (57 : 155.).
