Smith, John: A catalogue raisonné of the works of the most eminent Dutch, Flemish, and French painters: in which is included a short biographical notice of the artists, with a copious description of their principal pictures : a statement of the prices at which such pictures have been sold at public sales on the continent and in England; a reference the the galleries and private collections in which a large portion are at present; and the names of the artists by whom they have been engraved; to which is added, a brief notice of the scholars & imitators of the great masters of the above schools (Part 1) (London: Smith and Son, 1829)

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2. The Interior of a handsome apartment, in which is a
young lady dressed in a scarlet corset, seated near a table, with
a lace cushion and bobbins in her lap ; her attention appears
to be drawn from her work by an elderly woman, who has put
her head in at an open window, and is offering a dead fowl for
sale; a little white dog is behind her chair, and a basket of linen
stands on the ground before her. Engraved by Basan; then
in the collection of M. de Henekin, at Dresden.
A duplicate of the above, of a larger size, and painted by
Slingelandt, is in the Dresden gallery.
11| in. by 8| in.—P.

3. The Interior of a bed-room, with an elegantly-dressed
lady standing near her toilet, looking at a little dog dancing
before her; an arm-chair stands behind her, and in the back of
the room is a young woman making a bed. Engraved by Basan.
Then in the collection of Count de Bruhl.
Now in the gallery of the Hermitage, St. Petersburgh.
19 in. by 15. in.—P.

4. A lady seated, with a puppy in her lap, and a gentleman
standing at her side pinching its ear, in order to tease the bitch,
which is jumping up against the lady’s knees.
Collection of Baron Droste . . . 1734. . 7Z5sso. 651.
-- Van Zwieten . . . 1741. . 910 Jlo. 82l.
Now worth 450 gs.
Descamps mentions a picture of the same subject as the above,
which was then in the collection of Van Slingelandt, and is probably
the one now in His Majesty’s collection, which was exhibited at the
British Gallery, 1826. Engraved in mezzotinto, by Greenwood ;
also by Audouin, in the Musee. The above picture was removed
from the Louvre, in 1815, to the Hague gallery.
10g in. by 8 in.—P.