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)

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578. A Village Merry-making, in front of a neat cottage,
standing on the left of a landscape. The principal group of
figures consists of three couple dancing, in a ring, to the sound
of a fiddle, played by a man standing on a tub. A woman,
with a child in her lap, is seated on the trunk of a tree, close to
the front, with a little girl standing near her; and on the op-
posite side are three men conversing together.
Engraved by Le Bas, 1772, srom a picture then in the collection
of the Duke de Cosse.

579- A hilly Landscape, with a pool of water in front,
fringed with ssags and bulrushes ; six ducks and four ducklings
are on the pond, and two other ducks are ssying away ; upon
the top of the hill are seen five rabbits.
1st. 1| in. by 10| in.

580. The Companion. A similar subject, with six ducks
and the same number of ducklings, &c.
Engraved by Le Bas, from a picture then in the collection of M.
Le Brun.

581. A group of Four Children, amusing themselves by
blowing a bladder.
Engraved by Le Bas, under the title of La Vessie.

582. Rustic Amusement. The back Court of a Guinguette,
in which are assembled eleven peasants, two of whom are en-
gaged striking balls through a ring. The opposite side of the
picture presents a hilly landscape, with cottages and a pool of
water in front, close to a boarded fence, which separates it from
the court.
Engraved by Le Bas, under the title of La Recreation Flamande.
Formerly in the collection os M. Le Count de Boudouin, 1774.
583. An Interior, with a youth, seated, playing on a pipe ;
and an old woman, also seated, holding a music-paper in her