The sun is setting amid clouds in its glory, and throws its yellow beams on a French bark, steering westward. In the foreground is a fisherboat reefed in and drawing the net; different vessels are on the water, whose beautiful true color, in contrast with the yellow clouds, produces a striking effect. [P. 7.]
Catalogue of a Collection of Oil Paintings, by the Modern Belgian Masters, in possession of De Braekeleer, open at 518 Broadway. New-York: Sackett & Co., Book and Job Printers, No. 53 Nassau Street, near Maiden Lane. 1852.