JACOB MARIS (1837-1899) THE BRIDGE Canvas, 54 3/4 inches by 44 1/2 IN the immediate foreground a canal crossed by a bridge on which stands a woman. Below and close to the spectator a man in a barge engaged in lighting his pipe. To the left a gently inclined road along which walk two peasant women in single file carrying yokes from which milk-cans are suspended. Houses beyond bridge to right and left, town in the distance. Gray sky.

Signed at the lower right, "J. Maris." Painted in 1885.

The International Studio of February, 1907, speaks as follows of this picture:—"The largest and most important Maris in the collection (i.e., Alexander Young's) is 'The Bridge,' a work treated in the artist's broadest and most vigorous style. The composition and decorative qualities are seen here are only surpassed by the mastery brushwork and truthfulness of the atmospheric effect."

Illustrated in "Nineteenth Century Art," by D. S. MacColl, between pp. 84 and 85. An etching of this painting by Phillip Zilcken was published in 1887. Reproduced in "The Brothers Maris" (Summer number of the Studio), London, 1907, plate p. 20, and mentioned pp. 15, 16, 24, 29, 33. Exhibited at the Glasgow International Exhibition, 1901, No. 1370. Exhibited at the Guildhall , London, 1903, No. 92. Collection of J. S. Forbes, London. Collection of Alexander Young, London.