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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ADDENDUM
TO THE
WORKS OF NICHOLAS BERGHEM.


341. The Arcadian Shepherds and Shepherdesses. The view
exhibits a wild and mountainous scene, with two lofty trees
on the left; a broken and undulating fore-ground, bounded
by a lofty hill clothed with bushes, which extends from the
right across two-thirds of the picture. The composition con-
sists of three women and two men, grouped near the centre
of the fore-ground ; one of the former, wearing a loose yellow
dress, is dancing, and accompanies her movements by striking
a tambourine, and is looking at the same time with an inviting
expression at her companion, who sits on a bank near her,
and has just emptied her lap of a quantity of grapes and
other fruit: the remaining female is recumbent behind the
latter, receiving the caresses of a shepherd : the other herds-
man is on the farther side of a bank playing on a ssute. Two
cows, four sheep, and three goats, are browsing around them.
Evening. Signed, and dated 1649. This is a free and very
masterly production.
4st. 8 in. by 6 st. 10 in.—C.
Now in the collection of Richard Winstanley, Esq.