"Graat, born at Amsterdam, in 1628; died at Amsterdam, in 1709. Dutch school. 76. Coursing. H. 18 1/2 in.; W. 25 1/4 in. " These three excellent pictures of De Vries, which show the effect of Ruysdael's teaching are very superior to the specimen in the museum of Brussels; and their inspection demonstrates, to any one endowed with feeling for the art, how much the great modern French landscape painters owe to the old Dutch school of landscape. " The dove cote belonged to the first collection of the Baron De La Villestreux, the late charge d'affaires of France, in Italy. " The figures in the other two pictures which formed part of the Baillie Bosechaert collection, are by Barend Graat. One of these two is signed." [P. 36; serials 05510074 through 05510076 index the three pictures to which this commentary refers)
Catalogue of Pictures Belonging to the Metropolitan Museum of Art, No. 128 West 14th Street, New York.
