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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Vienna Gallery.
284. The Assumption of the Virgin. The reduplication of
this subject, each varying in composition from the others, is an
unequivocal proof of the artist’s fertile genius. In the present
picture the Virgin is clothed in white raiment; her right hand
is raised and the left extended; her countenance, beaming with
beatitude, is directed upwards; and a vast company of angels
gracefully ssoat around her. In the lower part are the twelve
apostles surrounding the tomb; at the side of which are three
females, two of them are shewing the ssowers taken off the
winding sheet, while the third, intended for Mary Magdalen,
is leaning on the shoulder of one of the former, looking at one
of the astonished apostles, who is seen in a profile view clad in
a scarlet robe; on his left is another, in a yellow vest and a
white mantle, kneeling and looking upwards. Close to the left
is a third apostle, seen in a hinder view, wearing a green vest;
near to him is one in a bluish gray robe, removing the stone
from the sepulchre ; and on the farther side of the females are
an elderly female and a man bearing a torch.
14/?. 6 in. by 9 ft. 8 in.—P.
This capital altar-piece was bought with another picture at
Antwerp in 1774, for the sum of 18,000 flo., 1620k
285. St. Andrew with a Cross. A sketch.
1 st. 9 in. by \st. 10 in.—P.
286. Atalanta and Meleager attacking the Calydonian Boar.
The enraged animal is at bay by the side of a fallen tree, and
beset in front by a group of hunters, amongst whom are the
nymph Atalanta (who has just let ssy an arrow and wounded
him in the head) and Meleager by her side armed with a spear;
two horsemen with javelins are galloping up to their assistance.
On the opposite side and in front are two men, one of them
blowing a horn, the other preparing to throw a javelin; several
dogs are wounded, and a man lies dead at the feet of the beast.
10/?. 4 in. by 13 ft.