Excerpt from Illustrated Catalogue of Valuable Paintings by Distinguished Masters of the Barbizon, Contemporaneous and American Schools: Together With Several Barye Bronzes and a Number of Autograph Letters of the Barbizon Painters and Other Celebrities AN extensive landscape is pictured, with two round-topped hills forming the skyline in the far distance. The land in the central part of the picture is dark under the shadow of a thick storm-cloud, as is the immediate foreground, while the sun shine strikes down between the shadows, illumining a meander ing river and a village on its bank toward the right. The village is a group of low buildings with picturesque roofs, largely surrounded by trees and before it the land projects in long, irregular, low, flat points out into the river. To the left a boat with figures in it appears in the stream, in the light, and in the cloud-shadow of the central foreground a group of figures are seen on a low hummock of the shore, some of them in silhouette against the light beyond them. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.