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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),