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- vas. Boaz sleeping upon his threshing-*floor,
under a tent formed of a blanket stretched over young trees; at his feet reclines Ruth, her head supported by her left arm, which rests upon a sheaf of barley; in the background, the glimmer of day is just spreading upward from the horizon.—Art Treasures of America, ii. 26, 30.
By Jean François Millet, Martin Brimmer, Boston. A harvest scene, with real peasants for characters. The master finds a young gleaner and leads her blushing to the feast of the country people. Salon, 1853.
By Nicolas Poussin, Louvre, Paris; canvas, H. 3 ft. 10 in. × 5 ft. 3 in. In a vast plain covered with grain, with hills and buildings on the horizon, women are engaged in harvesting; in foreground, Ruth kneels before Boaz, who orders a follower leaning upon a lance not to hinder her from gleaning. Sometimes called L'été (Summer). One of a series of four, painted in 1660-64, for Duc de Richelieu, whence passed to Louis XIV. Engraved by J. Pesne.—Filhol, iv. Pl. 256; Landon.
RUTH AND NAOMI, Murillo, Earl of
Radnor, Longford Castle, Wiltshire, England;
canvas, H. 5 ft. 8 in. × 6 ft. 8 in.
The two leaving Moab; in background,
Orpah returning to city.—Waagen, Treasures,
iv. 358; Stirling, iii. 1416; Curtis,
124.
RUTHART, KARL, flourished about
1660-80. German school; painter of animals
and hunts, was a resident of Ratisbon
in 1664; seems to have travelled in Italy
about 1672 and lived for some time in Venice.
Works: Bear Hunt, Louvre; Stag attacked
by two Lions, Bamberg Gallery;
Fierce Combat between Stags and Dogs,
Schleissheim Gallery; Stags upon Precipice;
Stag Hunt, Bear Hunt, Ulysses compelling
Circe to disenchant his Companions
(1666), Dresden Gallery; Stag Hunt, Museum,
Vienna; Shepherd leaning upon Donkey,
Lion fighting Panthers, Stag attacked
by Lynxes, Leopardess nursing a Child,
Lion by dead Stag attacked by Panthers,
Liechtenstein Gallery, ib.; Elks, Deer, and
Waterfowl on a Rocky Shore (2), Harrach
Gallery, ib.; Deer in a Landscape, do. in
Mountains, Bear Hunt, Stag Hunt, Czernin
Gallery, ib.; Bear Hunt, Schönborn Gallery,
ib.; Stag Hunt, Leopards by dead
Stags, and Eagles, Ferdinandeum, Innsbruck;
Deer Grazing and Fowl, Stag attacked
by Leopards, Palazzo Pitti, Florence.—Kugler
(Crowe), ii. 532; Nagler,
Mon., ii. 236.
RUTHS, VALENTIN, born in Hamburg, March 6, 1825. Landscape painter, pupil of Düsseldorf Academy under Schirmer; went to Italy in 1855, spent two years in Rome and settled in Hamburg, whence he repeatedly visited Germany, Switzerland, and North Italy. Member of Berlin Academy in 1869; gold medal, Berlin, 1872. Works: View in Roman Campagna, Evening in Sabine Mountains (1856), Forest Brook, Landscape with Harvest Wagon, Kunsthalle, Hamburg; Northern Heath (1864), Prague Gallery; Giant's Grave; Well in the Woods (1866), Königsberg Gallery; Village in Rhön Mountains; Evening Walk near Small Town (1875), Dresden Gallery; Morteratsch Glacier; Woodland near Lugano; View on Baltic Coast, National Gallery, Berlin; Hermit in the Woods, Summer Night in Holstein (Jubilee Exhibition, Berlin, 1886).—Kunst für Alle, i. 258; Leixner, Mod. K., ii. 116; Müller, 454.
RUYSCH, RACHEL, born in Amsterdam
in 1664, died there in 1750. Dutch school;
flower and fruit painter, pupil of Willem
van Aelst; married (1695) the portrait painter
Juriaan Pool, joined The Hague guild,
1701, and became court painter to the Elector
Palatine in 1708. Works: Flower and
Fruit-Pieces with Insects, etc., in Museums
of Brussels (1704), Amsterdam (4, one dated
1659), The Hague (2, 1700, 1715), Rotterdam
(1685), Aix-la-Chapelle, Berlin (1705),