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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:1.-4 on th« i&bte;ainted picture, signed, and dated \ (liection of M. Paignon Dijonval. 8 in. by 6£ in,- iated at the side trait of a very fail et nodi; or corset. in the collection of M. Hoffman, ( 9 in. by 7 in.—1 28. A Dutch family. The scene previa the interior of ahandsome apartment, suitably furnisl • bich are a lady and a gentleman, and their two chihlr- tbfi lady, elegantlyattired in a scarlet corset, bordered witfe ermine, and an em-broidered satin petticoat, is seated in front, with a child at herside, holding a birds-nest in its hand ; on the left of the ladyis a youth, dressed in the rich costume of the period, with astick in hie hand, apparently approaching his mother. The
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PETER VAN SLINGELANDT. 57 father of the family, habited in a plain morning robe, stands onthe farther side of a table, extending his left hand to take aletter from a negro servant; his right hand is placed on a book,lying on the table, which is covered with a rich Turkey carpet;a vase, containing flowers, is on the table, and an antique arm-chair stands in front of it; a spaniel lies asleep at the ladys feet. This is the most consequential picture which the writer knows,by this painter; and it is probably the one mentioned by Deseamps,representing the family of M. Meerman; in the execution ofwhich, the artist was engaged three years, he having devoted awhole month to the painting of the ruffles and frill only of theyoung gentleman; and, indeed, such is the extraordinary finishingof this picture, that it requires the aid of a magnifying glass todiscover the delicacy of its pencilling. It was bought by Monsieur D. Angevelliers, of an Englishbrewer, for the sum of 12,000 fs. 480/. It is

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