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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Landscapes.
country, with a river ssowing over a large portion of the fore-
ground, through which a man and woman, mounted together
on an ass, are passing, preceded by a herd of oxen, and followed
by a peasant driving into the stream a great number of goats ;
the whole are going towards a high bank, adorned with a
cluster of trees and bushes. A hill, of a round form, rises in
the centre, having on its summit a castle and other buildings,
and around its base (which forms the boundary of the river)
are bushes and a clump of slight trees of the poplar kind.
Painted for an amateur at Lyons, and subsequently in the
possession of Sir Joshua Reynolds.
3/7. 2 in. by 4st. 1 in.—C.
Now in the collection of the Right Hon. Lord Farnborough.
The preceding picture was sold, with a companion, in the
collection of M. Merval, in 1778, for 5000/s., 200/.

110. A Shepherdess listening to a Shepherd playing
on a Pipe. A landscape, representing a delightfully-wooded
country, having the appearance on the left of a recent inun-
dation, a large portion being covered with water, which, dis-
tributed into streams, rolls rapidly over broken banks ssowing
to the front-ground, where it branches osf through a narrow
channel to the opposite side. In this part is a young woman,
kneeling on a stone, filling a pitcher with water from a wooden
spout, at the side of the bank ; near which sits a shepherdess,
with a crook, listening to the music of a pipe played by a
peasant, who stands before her. A number of cows and goats
are distributed around them. Considerably beyond these, and
close to the left, is introduced the ssight of the Holy Family.
From hence the eye looks among clusters of trees of various
kinds; and in the more distant landscape, towards the left,