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 (Band 9): Supplement (London: Smith and Son, 1842)

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6. A Horse Fair. Styled by the engraver Moyreau,
“ Le Grand Marche aux Chevaux.” This very capital pic-
ture exhibits an open country, divided in the middle distance
by a river, whose course is lost among the distant mountains.
The principal scene of activity is represented along the front
and second grounds, on which may be numbered about
twenty-four horses ; exhibiting that noble animal in every
variety of action, and nearly fifty persons. On the left of
the picture is a coach, drawn by four fine grey horses ; and
in front of this object, are a grey and a bay horse, on the
latter of which are mounted a man and a boy; in advance of
these is a group of four horses, and several persons, among
whom may be noticed a cavalier and a lady, observing the
paces of a horse, which a jockey and his master are showing-
off ; a gentleman, on a black horse, seems also to be watching
the action of the animal. Near this person is a mare, lying
down, and a foal standing by it, which a boy is approaching.
On the opposite side of the picture is a gentleman, on a
cream-coloured horse, near two spirited greys, one of which
is kicking, and a woman, a man, and a boy, are escaping
from its heels. From thence the eye looks over an open
space, occupied by men and horses, receding in succession to
the bank of the river, along which are houses and tents, con-
cealed in part by trees. This picture is painted throughout
with great care and delicacy, in what is termed the last
manner of the master, remarkable for the prevalent grey or
silvery hues of colouring. See description, No. 13, Vol. I,
improved.
2 st. 11 by 2 st. ll.-P.
Exhibited for private sale in the Collection of the Duchess de
Berri, at Messrs. Christie and Manson’s, 1834, price 2,000Z. Not
finding a buyer at that price, it was sold with the residue of the
same Collection at Paris, 1837, foi- 37,380 fr. (1,595Z.)
In the Collection of the Count de Mecklenburg, Paris.