Buchanan, William: Memoirs of painting: with a chronological history of the importation of pictures by the great masters into England since the French Revolution (Band 2) (London: Ackermann, 1824)

THE TALLEYRAND COLLECTION.

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of the collections of the Prince de Conti, the Due
de Valentinois, the Due de Choiseuil, de Poullain,
of Randon de Boisset, de Tolozan, Van Leyden,
de Schmidt, Clos, Solirene, and the rich collection
of Robit, from which the pictures above cited
came, and which are described in this catalogue ?
From those collections came the Paul Potter,
No. 25; the Backhuysen, No. 2 ; the two Ostades,
Nos. 22, 24 ; the two Vanderheydens, Nos. 15,16;
and the Adrian Vanderwerf, No. 43.
The picture representing “ Les (Euvres de
misericorde,” No. 30, was painted for the ancient
family of the Duke of Alva; the William Vanden
Velde, No. 41, ornamented the royal gallery of
Sardinia ; the Cuyp, No. 10, that of the last king
of Poland; the Claude Lorrain, No. 17, that of
Malmaison, and previous to that the gallery of the
Prince of Hesse Cassel.—Feeling that such identity
is to each picture the highest eulogium as ascertain-
ing its origin, we have composed this catalogue, not
of useless phrases and epithets, but of circumstan-
tial descriptions, simple and clear, for the sake of
the lovers of art who may not have the advantage
of seeing them personally.
With regard to the short remarks on many of
the articles, they are less intended in the way of
praise, than as indicatory of the qualities particular