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 5) (London: Smith and Son, 1834)

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KAREL DU JARDIN.

holds in front with the left hand. Seen to the middle. Signed,
and dated 1657.
8 in. by 7 in.—P.
If this be a portrait of the painter (and there is no reason to doubt
it), then is the error of his historians, relative to the period of his
birth, indubitably proved; sor, according to their account, he was at
the time he painted it but seventeen years old, whereas it bears
evident marks of his being twenty-seven or thirty years os age ; and
as the latter date would place his birth in 1630, all difficulties would
thereby be reconciled respecting the dates on his pictures. The
above portrait is engraved in the Musee Frangais.
Valued by the Experts du Musee, 1816. . SOOGyis. 120/.
Now in the Louvre.
82. A Woman watching Cattle. The view represents a
meadow, on the fore-ground of which stands a young woman
with a distaff, spinning ssax, and a little beyond her is a white
ox rubbing itself against a little tree adjoining a reed fence,
under the shelter of which repose two sheep : near the woman
is an ass lying down, and a dog teazing it. Engraved in the
Musee Frangais.
\ ft. by 1 ft. 2 in.—P.
This picture has lost all its pristine beauty, by injudicious cleaning
and restoring.
Sold in the collection of M. Wurman, Amst. 1762. 325j?o. 29Z.
Removed from the Louvre in 1816, and restored to the Hague
Musee.
83. Fishermen. The view represents a bold rocky scene,
with a cascade rushing between a chasm in the rocks, and
gurgling along the front-ground. Two fishermen with a
basket net are in the stream, and a third is assisting them in
their labour with a long rake. A man on a gray horse,
leading an obstinate ass, is on the bank of the water. The
rocks are richly covered with bushes, and a building occupies
the summit of the most distant one. This beautiful production
is signed, and dated 1673. Engraved in the Musee Frangais.
2ft. 1 in. by 2st. Sin.—-C.