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)

CLAUDE LORRAINE

Landscapes.

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lastly, purchased in 1815, by the Emperor Alexander, and is
now in the Palace of the Hermitage, at St. Petersburg!}.—
Engraved by Schlotterbeck, and also by C. Haldenwang.
—See also Nos. 38, 88, 187, 313, and 334.
3ft. 8| in. by 5ft. 1 in.—C. Worth 2500 gs.
A duplicate of the preceding picture, of a smaller size, was
painted in 1675, for a Mr. Cause.

155. A Pastoral Scene. In this picture the eye looks over
an open country, distinguished by a castle and other buildings,
upon an eminence in the middle distance, and a winding river
ssowing round the hill and sweeping along the extremity of
the fore-ground. In this part and right of the scene is an
isolated tree, bending with the weight of its boughs over the
river; at the foot of the tree sits a herdsman, playing on a
pipe, while his oxen and goats are browsing over the grassy
fore-ground. A large tree, the trunk of which only is seen,
is on the left, amidst bushes and a light young acacia.
Painted in 1661, for Mr. Wiald.

156. A Herdsman driving Cattle to a River. In the fore-
ground of a hilly and well wooded landscape, is a herdsman
with a long stick on his shoulder, driving several oxen and a
number of goats to a river which ssows over a large portion
on the left, and is crossed in the centre by a bridge, having
three square openings for the water to pass, and abutting
against a bank clothed with bushes. The right of the picture
is adorned with a large clump of young trees and bushes,
amidst which grows a fine chesnut; beyond this stands the
ruins of a temple: two boats are on the river, and peasants
with cattle are passing the bridge. Painted in 1662, for
Signor Don Lee.