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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CLAUDE LORRAINE.

Landscapes.
opposite side is distinguished by a tent, attached to a tree;
from hence, the eye looks over some broken ground, varied
with bushes and spots of pasture, to a spacious bay, where
several vessels are seen, sailing or riding at anchor; the dis-
tance is partly bounded by mountains. The figures which
animate the scene, consist of a young shepherd, dressed in a
tawny yellow mantle, standing at the foot of the bridge, playing
on a pipe, to which a shepherdess, sitting by him, is listening; a
little beyond them, is a man crossing the bridge, and still more
remote, are three persons in conversation ; in addition to these,
may be observed two stags, feeding in an adjacent meadow.
The prevailing effect is that of a fine serene morning. This
highly estimable picture was painted for a person at Paris; it
was subsequently in the collections of Lord Scarborough and
W. Smith, Esq., M.P., and was sold about the year 1818, by
Mr. Buchanan, to the Count de Pourtales.
3st. 3 in. l>y 4st. 3J> in.—C.

65. Tobias and the Angel. The subject is introduced in
the fore-ground of a landscape, and the youthful Tobias
bearing a fish under his arm, and accompanied by an angel, is
approaching the spectator ; they appear to have just quitted
a river, through which a peasant is passing, driving before him
a herd of oxen, the foremost of which are on a road, leading to
a wood. In the distance are the beautiful rocks of Tivoli,
surmounted by the temple of Sybil, and other classical build-
ings ; and at its side is seen a cascade, rolling in broken masses
into the river, which flows round its base. Painted for some
person at Paris.—See also, Nos. 50 and 165.
1 ft. 4 in. by 1ft. 7 J in.—C.
A picture corresponding with the preceding, was sold in the
Collection of the Countess de Venue, 1737- 380y§. 15Z.
-M. Blondel de Gagny, 1776. 4050/s. 162Z.