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 7) (London: Smith and Son, 1836)

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New Testament Subjects.
session of M. J. Barry, at Amsterdam; and also by J. B.
Jackson, and Freeman.
1 ft. l|m. by 10| m.— P.
Collection of Sir Joshua Reynolds, . 1795 41 gs.
Presented, with many other excellent pictures, by the late
Sir George Beaumont, Bart, to the National Gallery.
97. A Picture representing the Descent from the Cross, is
stated to be in the collection of the Count Schonborn.
ift. 11 in. by 3 ft. 9 in.-—C.
98. The Entombment. The scene presents a large cave,
with a stone sepulchre placed on the right, into which two men
are lowering the body of the Saviour by means of a sheet;
one of them supports the head with both hands under the arm
pits : behind this person is Joseph of Arimathea, with a light,
the flame of which he conceals with his hand, and near the latter
is an aged woman. At the foot of the tomb are the Virgin and
two of the Maries ; a little retired from these are two disciples;
and still more remote are faintly perceived, in the gloom of
the cave, several other persons. This picture is sadly darkened
by time, and injured by injudicious cleaning. Engraved by
Hess.
2 ft. 10 in. by 2 ft. 1 in.—C. farched.)
Now in the Munich Gallery.
99- The Entombment. The composition of this picture
corresponds very nearly with the preceding, the difference con-
sisting chiefly in the minor parts and details. Mount Calvary
is faintly seen in the distance. This is a finished study, of
great merit.
3 ft. 5 in. by 2ft. 5 in.
Now in the Museum at Dresden. Worth 300 gs.