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. 333
On the left come other persons, who conduct a
waggon loaded with wood, and drawn by several
horses.
This picture, which is of a most golden and
brilliant colouring, unites in richness all those
qualities of the art wherein the Dutch painters
have excelled, and there is no other of this master
known in France, worthy of being compared
to it. It conies from the famous cabinet of

Muylmann.
This picture was purchased for 700 guineas
by Alexander Baring, Esq., in whose collection it
now is.

25. Paul Potter-—on wood—9 inches by
11 inches.
The middle ground and distance of this little
picture offer to the view an extensive plain co-
vered with cattle. The fore-ground is occupied
by three cows of a proportion of about four inches,
one of which, of a red and white colour, is seen in
profile, and is grazing; a second, of a yellow colour,
lies alongside a tree, and appears to chew the
cud, while a third, which is black, is finely fore-
shortened, and completes the group.
The beautiful penciling of this picture which
is extremely delicate, without being over-finished
or hard; an exact imitation of nature in all parts