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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Mythological Subjects.
whatever he touched into gold. The deity stands near, holding
a cup in one hand, while the other is compassionately extended
towards the suffering king. Silenus is recumbent near’ them,
and a beautiful nymph lies naked asleep on the fore-ground,
with an infant by her side. Beyond this group are three
fauns, one of whom is seated drinking, a second is playing on
a double pipe, and a third is gathering fruit. In addition to
these, on the left, may be noticed two boys playing with a
goat, and more remote are a recumbent river god and a youth ;
the latter is kneeling on the bank of a stream. The surround-
ing country represents a beautiful arcadian scene. This ex-
cellent picture may fairly be estimated at 800gs.
3st. by 4ft. 2 in.—C.
Now in the Public Gallery at Munich.

273. Mount Parnassus. Apollo is seated on the sacred
mount, and the nine muses standing on his right; the atten-
tion of the deity is directed to a poet, who is bending before
him and placing a volume on his lap, and to whom in return
he is presenting a cup of water from the Pierian spring ; one
os the muses is about to crown the bard with a wreath of
laurel. On each side of the mount, and close to the front,
stand a number of poets, each carrying a book, and crowned
with a chaplet; to these, two genii are presenting cups of
water taken from the stream which ssows in the centre of the
fore-ground; on the farther bank of which, a beautiful
nymph reclines on a vase, the emblem of the sacred fount.
Above are seen several cupids ssying among the branches of
the ever-verdant trees, from which they are either gathering
branches to compose chaplets, or have them in their hands:
one of them carries a violin on his shoulders. This capital
picture is engraved by Dughet, and anonymous.