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 2) (London: Smith and Son, 1830)

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Munich Gallery.
and energetic expression are conspicuous in every part. In
the composition, he has evidently borrowed largely from the
fine group of the Battle of the Standard, by Lionardo
da Vinci.
8 st. 8in. by lljst. 84 in.—C. Worth 3000 gs.
Engraved by Bolswert and Le Tellier.
A Drawing of the preceding, done in India ink and bistre,
terminated with the pen and heightened with white, is in the
Musee at Paris.
15s in. by 231 in.

248. A View in Flanders, exhibiting the usual scenery of
woodlands intersected by meadows and corn-fields. The fore-
ground is diversified by a herd of fourteen cows, one of which
a woman is milking, while a man and another woman are occu-
pied with the milk cans. This is an excellent production.
2 st. 6 in. by 3 ft. 3| in.—P. Worth SOO gs.

249. A Landscape, representing a beautiful and fertile
country, diversified with clusters of trees, and intersected by a
high road ; sunshine and shade vary the pleasing scene, and
the freshness of a recent shower (indicated by a bright rainbow
in the heavens) pervades the vegetation; in the fore-ground are
two women and a man with a herd of nine cows ; on the right
is a waggoner riding on the fore-horse of a team (part only of
these appear), and in the opposite side are a number of ducks
basking on the bank of a pond. This admirable picture is of
first-rate excellence.
3 st. by 3 ft. 10 m.—P. Worth 1200 gs.
Neither this nor the preceding is engraved.
The Catalogue of this magnificent collection contains eighty-eight
pictures, but those by the hands of scholars are omitted.