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 3) (London: Smith and Son, 1831)

DAVID TENIERS.

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Engraved by Le Bas, from a picture then in the collection of
the Due de Valentinois.
Collection of the Countess de Verrue, 1737. . 1460/i. 58l.
- M. Sereville, (bought in) 1811. . 7000 fs. 2801.
A picture representing the same subject as the preceding, dif-
ferently composed, is in the gallery of the Sans Souci, at Potsdam,
2 ft. 8 in. by 8 ft. 10 in.—C.
Descamps mentions a picture, representing the Temptation of
St. Anthony, in which the figures are of the size of nature. It is
.dated 1666, and signed “David Teniers, junior—Malines.”

57. A Marriage Festival. The company consists of about
seventy persons, assembled near a cottage and a boarded fence;
amongst the numerous figures that enliven the scene, are three
couple dancing to the music of a bag-pipe, played by an old
fellow sitting on a tub. Near the middle, and close to the
front, is a young woman, who appears reluctant to join in the
dance; a young fellow is pulling her by the wrist, whilst ano-
ther youth behind seems to be whispering in her ear. At the
side, and close to the front, are four women and three men at
table ; one of the former, with a child on her lap, is listening to
the conversation of a man, who stands behind her chair. On the
opposite side is a woman endeavouring to raise a drunken man.
2 ft. 1 in. by 2 st. 4 in.—Cop.
Engraved by Le Bas, under the title of Le Lendemain des Noces.
Collection of the Countess de Verrue, 1737. . 1755fs. 70l.
- the Marquis de Brunoy, 1777, "with a Companion,
entitled Accords Flamands, 11,000/s. 440/..
58. A Village Fete. The scene of festive hilarity is repre-
sented as passing in the enclosed court of a Flemish guinguette^
where about sixty-five persons have assembled ; of these nine
are seated round a table on the left, from which an elderly man,
leaning on his stick, has risen, and turned round, to look at a
merry party, composed of three couple, dancing to the music of
a hurdy-gurdy and bag-pipe, played by two men at the foot of
a tree. About the centre, and close to the front, is a group of