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)

188 CLAUDE LORRAINE.
severe attack of this disease, attended with acute sever,
on the 21st of November, 1682, and died, aged 82.
The highest respect was shown by many of the most
distinguished persons at Rome to the remains of the
deceased artist. His bier was conducted with suitable
ceremony to the Church of the Trinita del Monte de’
Frati Minori, where, after the accustomed obsequies, it
was interred near the Chapel of the most Holy
Nunziata, and a marble monument erected to his
memory, on which was inscribed

D. 0. M.
Claudio Gellee Lotaringo
Ex Loco de Chamagne orto,
Pictori eximio.
Qui ipsas orientis et occidentis,
Solis radis in campestribus
Morifice pingendis offinixit.
Hei in urbe ubi artem coluit
Summan laudem inter magnates
Consectus est.

Obiit. IX, Kalend. Decembris, M.D.C.LXXXII,
JEtatis suEB ami. LXXXII,
Joan et Josephus Gellee.
Patrico carissimo monumentem hoc
Sibt Posterisque suis
Poni aurarunt.

Claude added to a kind and amiable disposition,
an unimpeachable moral character, and this feeling
he extended even to the subjects which embellish his
pictures.