Smith, John: A catalogue raisonné of the works of the most eminent Dutch, Flemish, and French painters: in which is included a short biographical notice of the artists, with a copious description of their principal pictures : a statement of the prices at which such pictures have been sold at public sales on the continent and in England; a reference the the galleries and private collections in which a large portion are at present; and the names of the artists by whom they have been engraved; to which is added, a brief notice of the scholars & imitators of the great masters of the above schools (Band 9): Supplement (London: Smith and Son, 1842)

702 JACOB RUYSDAEL,
G3. Peasants fording a stream. The scene exhibits the
environs of a forest, divided in the foreground by a road,
which winds round a pond, and is then overssowed by a por-
tion of the water ; through this a man and a woman are
passing. In the opposite side of the picture are four sheep
and a lamb near an oak, at the foot of which lies the trunk
of a tree.
1 st. 3 by 1 st. 8.—C.
Exhibited in the British Gallery, 1837. C. T. Tower, Esq.

64. A Forest. This capital picture exhibits a scene of singu-
lar grandeur and imposing effect, under the appearance of
autumn. On the left are clusters of lofty oak and other
trees, of various hues, amongst which, and close to the front,
stands a leassess beech, and the trunk of another lies amidst
bushes at its base, and in a pool of water, ssowing in the cen-
tre through the forest. The right of the picture is composed
of high rugged banks, varied with stumps and the tortuous
roots of trees, and surmounted by a clump of bushes. On
the farther side of an old oak growing on the margin of the
pool, may be descried two sportsmen, watching their dogs
while in pursuit of a hare swimming through the stream.
Abundance of bullrushes and other aquatic weeds grow on
and around the stagnant pool, at the farthest extremity of
which the eye encounters the distant sandy dunes of Hol-
land. Painted in the master’s most energetic style.
4# 9 by 3 st. S|.-C.
Purchased privately by Messrs. Smith, 1842.

65. The Ruin. A landscape representing a woody scene,
distinguished by the ruins of a building standing on an emi-
nence, a little retired on the left, backed by a wood: near