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 8) (London: Smith and Son, 1837)

NICHOLAS POUSSIN.

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Old Testament Subjects.
19. Moses trampling on the Crown of Pharaoh. The
subject consists of the same number of figures, and is also
very similarly grouped to the preceding picture, but they
are here assembled in the exterior court of the palace, and
instead of two females protecting the infant, only one is intro-
duced holding him by the waist with one hand, and extending
the other to resist the threatened blow. The number of
soothsayers here consist of five, four of them stand behind the
king. The upper part of a temple, and a palm tree, are seen
above the wall enclosing the court. Engraved by Dambrum,
in the Orleans Gallery.
3ft. 1 in. by 4ft. 4 in.—C.
Collection of the Due d’Orleans, imported 1798. Valued at 400
Now in the collection of the Duke of Bedford.

20. The Soothsayers counselling Pharaoh to destroy the
Child Moses. This capital picture is composed of about
nine figures, the size of life, seen down to the knees. In the
centre of the group is an altar, on which a fire is blazing, and
on the farther side of it is seated the Egyptian monarch,
who appears to be listening to the predictions and council
of the soothsayers ; their advice has alarmed the princess
Thermutis, and she is anxiously protecting the child from
threatened destruction. This picture is painted in the
grandest style of the master.
3/Z. 10 in. by 5 st. 6 in.—C. (about.)
Now in the Brandenburg Palace, at Potsdam.

21. Moses driving the Herdsmen from the Well, that the
daughters of Jethro might water their ssocks. This picture
is composed of eight women and four men ; one of the former
is stooping to take water from a well placed in the centre of