Identifier: raisonneoftheworks01smit (find matches)
Title: 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 to 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:
Year: 1829 (1820s)
Authors: Smith, John, -1718
Subjects: Painters Painters Painters
Publisher: London, Smith and son
Contributing Library: Getty Research Institute
Digitizing Sponsor: Getty Research Institute

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n chat with two men; nearwhom is an old fellow being led away tipsy; approaching thefront is a man with a barrow, selling mussels and dried fish;and on the opposite side are two men and a horse, near atrough : a mountebank, holding forth to a numerous audience,is seen in the distance; and in the intermediate space is apoor cripple without legs. Now in the collection of Mr. Emmerson. 32 in. by 26 in.~~l>. <aW.) 65. A country inn, by a road-side, at I cart drawn by a gray horse, has stopped t<provender is placed before the beast, andglass in one hand and a jug in the other, iin the cart; at the side of the ho;,woman, one of the former sits on a tub, anthe door of the house, in conversation withit. Engraved in the Musee Napoleon Valued by the Experts du Musee, in INow in the Louvre. 21 in. by 17 in. K 66. A view on a canal in Holland, during a severe in IncJ m in, in aban ; a trough of\ er, with aseated on a caskI i wo men and aI a man stands attwo others within t 8000 fs. 3202.
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ISAAC VAN OSTADE. 197 front are two boys, pushing along a sledge, in whieh are twoother boys ; and on the opposite side are a man and a womanskating together, and four boys, one of whom is seated on alittle sledge; more towards the middle is a man driving agray horse (with a sledge laden with casks) up a bank,towards a house; various other figures are distributed overthe scene. Engraved in the Musee. Valued by the Experts du Musee, in 1816, at 20,000 fs. 800/.Now in the Lonvre. 36 in. by 54 in.—C. 67. A merry rustic, with a jug of beer in his hand.Now in the Musee at Amsterdam. 68. Travellers halting at a country inn, 10 refresh them-selves and steeds. Now in the Musee at Amsterdam. 69. A Landscape, with a picturesque inn, situate on thesummit of a hill on the right, with an ascent of steps to abalcony in front of the first floor. Among a company oftravellers, who have halted to refresh, the most distinguishedperson is a lady, habited in a scarlet robe, who has alightedfrom her stee

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