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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of which were of a colossal size, and done expressly
to decorate the church of the Carmelites. The archi-
tectural and landscape portions of these works were
by Claude.
Claude at length grew weary of this most unpro-
fitable employment, and resolved to seize the first op-
portunity to put an end to an engagement which
offered so little scope to his genius, and became in-
creasingly humiliating to his feelings. He recollected
with pleasure the beautiful scenes he had quitted,
and sighed to return to the soil so sacred and genial
to art. His relation in vain endeavoured to dissuade

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