574 and 575.

The execution of the woman's muslin collar is among the most dexterous things in Dutch art.
From the Ryks Museum it is but a little way (past the model Dutch garden) to the Stedelijk Museum, where modern painting may be studied--Israels and Bosboom, Mesdag and James Maris, Breitner and Jan van Beers, Blommers and Weissenbruch.
There is also one room dedicated to paintings of the Barbizon school, and of this I would advise instant search.

I rested my eyes here for an hour.

A vast scene of cattle by Troyon (who, such is the poverty of the Dutch alphabet, comes out monstrously upon the frame as Troijon); a mysterious valley of trees by Corot; a wave by Courbet; a mere at evening by Daubigny--these are like cool firm hands upon one's forehead.
The statement Nothing graceful, wise, or sainted,-- That is how the Dutchman painted, is so sweeping as to be untrue.

Indeed it is wholly absurd.