G.F. Waagen, Die vornehmsten Kunstdenkmäler in Wien, Vienna 1866–67, vol. I, p. 342 (as Ruisdael);
T. von Frimmel, Lexikon der Wiener Gemäldesammlungen, vol. I, Munich 1913, p. 382, cat. no. 138 (as Ruisdael);
C. Hofstede de Groot, Beschreibendes und kritisches Verzeichnis der Werke der hervorragendsten holländischen Maler des XVII. Jahrhunderts, vol. 4, Esslingen a.N. 1911, cat. no. 414 (as Ruisdael);
K.E. Simon, Jacob van Ruisdael, doctoral diss., Berlin 1927, p. 43 (as Ruisdael);
J. Rosenberg, Jacob van Ruisdael, Berlin 1928, cat. no. 408a (as Ruisdael);
H.F. Wijnman, 'Het leven der Ruysdaels', Oud Holland, vol. 49, 1932, p. 267, reproduced (as Ruisdael);
K.E. Simon, 'Jacob Isaackzoon van Ruisdael', in Thieme-Becker, vol. 29, 1935, p. 192 (as Kessel);
K.E. Simon, 'Doctor Jacob van Ruisdael', in The Burlington Magazine, vol. 67, 1935, p. 135 (as Kessel);
A.I. Davies, Jan van Kessel (1641–1680), Doornspijk 1992, p. 158, cat. no. 59, reproduced (as Kessel);
S. Slive, Jacob van Ruisdael. A complete catalogue of his paintings, drawings and etchings, New Haven and London 2001, p. 627, cat. no. dub38, reproduced (under 'Dubious and wrongly attributed paintings', as 'close to Kessel').
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William Unger (1837–1932).