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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Mythological Subjects.
(probably intended as an emblem of the groves), his brows
are bound with ivy, and a branch of the same is inhis hand;
and on the opposite side is an infant gathering a bunch of
grapes. The surrounding scene exhibits a hilly country
adorned with clusters of trees, and represented under the
aspect of early morning, indicated by Phoebus rising in
splendour above the hills, and shedding his glowing effulgence
on the hemisphere. This picture may justly be reckoned
among the finest works of Poussin.
4ft. 3 in. by 5 st.—C.
Now in the collection of the Earl of Ashbumham.

212. A Bacchalian Revel in honour of Pan. The
subject is composed of thirteen figures, forming one large
group, which occupies the whole extent of the picture. In
the centre is placed a statue of the ancient symbolic deity,
which a beautiful nymph, clad in a light blue vest, is adorning
with ssowers; with one hand she embraces the idol, while the
other is extended to take some ssowers from a faun : a nymph
behind her is joyously striking the tambourine, and a third is
approaching, bearing a dead faun. In front of these is a
smiling nymph loosely clad in a red vesture, pushing back-
wards a wanton satyr, whom she holds down by his horn;
behind her is a fifth female, in a blue mantle, riding on a goat,
and extending her hand to take some ssowers from a basket
presented by a faun on his knees; another faun supports her,
and a third close to them is sounding a trumpet. On the
opposite part of the picture is a faun endeavouring to raise a
drunken satyr, and a youth near them is performing some
antic movement. Every figure appears to be excited by the
most ecstatic wildness, both of look and gesture, agreeable to