The painting is catalogue number 15 in the 1911 catalogue raisonné by art historian Hofstede de Groot. He wrote "The spectator looks towards the old Jachthaven and the Blaauwbrug, from the canal-bank where the Deaconesses' Home for Old Women was erected later." [2] The painting is catalogue number 2 in Seymour Slive's 2001 catalogue raisonné of Ruisdael.[1] Its inventory number for the Museum of Fine Arts is 4278 .[3]
Slive, Seymour (2001). Jacob van Ruisdael: a Complete Catalogue of his Paintings, Drawings, and Etchings. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press. ISBN978-0-300-08972-1.