398. One of Jacob Ruysdael’s finest landscapes, with ruined tower.
399. Excellent *sea piece by Jacob Ruysdael, representing the Lake of Haarlem in a storm. Good foam.
I pass by, on the same wall, many meritorious Dutch works which cannot fail to strike the observer.
141. Albert Cuyp: *Cows. Excellent.
232. *Delicately luminous piece by Karel du Jardin, “L’Avant-garde du Convoi.”
153. Gerard Dou: **The artist drawing a Cupid by lamplight. One of his finest studies in light and shade. It should be looked at long and carefully.
On either side of it, delicate small pieces by Steen, A. van Ostade and Dietrich.
47. *Good portrait by Bol.
281. *Portrait by Maes. Fine and audacious in colouring. Above it, 403, good Ruysdael.
Do not imagine because I give little space to the pictures in this room that they are not therefore important. As works of art, many of them are of the first value; but they do not require that kind of explanation which it is the particular province of these Guides to afford.