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)

276 RUBENS.
This landscape, which is painted in a bold, free, or bravura
manner, is inscribed No. 131, in the catalogue of Rubens’s effects.
Now in the possession of the Right Honourable Lady Stuart.
929. The Death of the Calydonian Boar. The composition
consists of seven figures on foot and two on horseback ; conspi-
cuous among the former is seen Atalanta, who has discharged an
arrow from her bow, and is observing with delight that the
weapon is fixed in the animal’s head; while Meleager has
sprung before her, and plunged a spear into its shoulder ; two
huntsmen, mounted on spirited horses, and armed with jave-
lins, are in the opposite side.
Engraved by Van Kessel.
A picture of a very similar composition to the preceding is in the
Vienna Gallery. Engraved by Premier.

930. Figures and Dead Game. A fine woman, carrying a
basket of fruit before her, is approaching the front, from the
right side, accompanied by a sportsman with a hawk on his
hand, who is helping himself to a couple of figs from the basket;
two dogs follow him ; one of them is by the side of the female,
and the other is smelling the game, which, consisting of a wild
boar, fawns, hares, pheasants, and other birds, lie in ample
abundance in the left of the picture.
6 ft. 8 in. by 7 st. ^in.—C. Worth 700 gs.
Engraved by R. Earlom, under the title of “ The Fig,” from the
original picture, at that time in the collection of the Earl of Thanet.
Exhibited in the British Gallery in 1821.
Now in the collection of the Earl of Plymouth.

931. A Wild Boar Hunt, in a woody Landscape. A party,
consisting of seven huntsmen on foot and four on horseback,
accompanied by a number of dogs, attacking a boar near the
trunk of a fallen tree; several of the dogs have seized the
animal, and a party of men on foot, armed with javelins, spears,
and a pitchfork, oppose his progress; one of the latter, in a