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)

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NICHOLAS POUSSIN.

Mythological Subjects.
from his bow ; the other is prepared to do the same; a fourth
cupid is on the farther side of the bank ; and the remaining
one is ssying over them. On the opposite side is seen Mars
descending in his car drawn by lions, and attended by Love,
bearing a lighted torch. On this side, the eye looks over a
valley in which is personified, by a recumbent figure of an
athletic man and infant children, the river Tiber. Engraved
in the Musee Frampais, by Niquet.
2 st. 4 in. by 4ft. 7 in.—C.
Now in the Louvre.

236. Hercules bearing off* Dejanira. The subject is
composed of eight figures, grouped in the fore-ground of a
bold rocky country adorned with trees. In the centre is the
athletic son of Alcmena, carrying in his arms the daughter of
2Eneas: a cupid, with the club of the hero on his shoulder,
is ssying before them; two others, bearing on a pole the skin
of the Nemaean lion, follow after them. The remaining figures
appear to be intended for Ceres, who is seated holding a cor-
nucopia, and a naiade; the latter is binding a fillet on the
head of a river deity, who is seen leaning on a vase. This
picture was painted in 1639, for M. de Chantelou. Engraved
by Audran.

237. The Triumph of Neptune and Amphitrite. This
capital picture is composed of ten principal figures, of which
the most conspicuous is the beautiful daughter of Oceanus,
who is represented sitting naked in a car, holding with one
hand the reins of her dolphins, while the other confines a veil
which ssoats above her head; she is assisted by a nymph on