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)

JOHN BAPTIST GREUZE.

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wave around his head, and a thin drapery, of a lilac hue,
ssoats loosely about his arms and body. Although little more
than the bust is shewn in the picture, yet such is the skill
displayed in the attitude, that the position of the figure may
readily be conceived.
1 st- by 1 ft- 3.—P.
Collection of the late Count Perregaux, 1841 ; 8550 fs. and 5
per cent. (358Z.)

8. Psyche. The fabled beauty of the poets’ imagination is
here represented as a lovely girl, just merging on the age of
adolescence, seen in nearly a front view, with her chestnut
hair detached from its band of pearls, and ssoating redun-
dantly in dishevelled tresses behind her shoulders ; her head
gracefully inclines over her right shoulder, and by its
bending position gives additional effect to the sorrow
depicted in her compressed lips and depressed brows, while
her swimming eyes seem to trace, with poignant grief, the
ssight of her departing lover. A white tunic and a blue
vesture conceal the lower portion of the figure, leaving her
shoulders and heaving bosom exposed.
1 st. 6| by 1 st. 3.—P.
Put up to sale in the above Collection, 1841 ; 7500 fs. and
5 per cent. (315Z.) Bought in.

9. Psyche. This highly estimable picture is nearly a
repetition of the preceding, wrought up to the highest degree
of careful finishing and purity of colour, and by some is
thought to exhibit a more lovely and expressive countenance.
Mr. Arteria, in a well-composed catalogue of the Collec-
tion in which it now is, states that this is reported to have
been the picture which his friend Mons. Vien exhibited, on
behalf of the artist, to the assembled Academicians, saying,