A Catalogue Raisonné of the Works of the Most Eminent Dutch, Flemish and French Painters: Nicholas Poussin, Claude Lorraine, and Jean Baptist Greuze

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Smith and Son, 1837
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Girl seen in nearly a profile view with light hair
65
Psyche her head turned to the right shoulder and
72
Girl learning her lesson
79
Same Holding with both hands a muslin kerchief
85
Same Dressed in a pale blue vest attached on
89
Youth in a fancy dress tuning a guitar
95
Same Seated with both hands on her
96
Young woman seen in nearly a profile view
102
Girl just risen and with upraised hands is adoring
109
Boy leaning on a table with a rosebud in his hand
110
Young woman deploring the destruction of a basket of eggs 430
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No Page 116 Herdsman seated on a fallen tree conversing with a woman Barrett Esq 254
116
Same conversing with two women Four peasants with cattle 255
117
Same seated Cattle feeding near a river
118
Catherine II of Russia A head
123
Father embracing his daughter
126
Young woman leaning her head on her hand
127
Peasant boy seen in nearly a profile view
132
Gentleman standing with his back to a window
134
Peasants family quitting their abode
137
Widow and children claiming the protection of the curate
143
Young woman asleep in her fauteuil a dog on her lap 434
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Paralytic and his affectionate family St Petersburgh 438
150
Mother grandmother and children
156
Woman selling apples
162
Signora Amicis A beautiful woman E W Lake Esq 443
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Shepherdess seated with her back to the spectator 260
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Four peasants under the shade of two trees near a river 304
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Herdsman keeping cattle in the vicinity of a forest
203
Three men one lies on the ground another stands leaning on a staff 307
204
Cascade falling among rocks
205
No Page 249 Rocky hills surmounted by temples A bridge over a chasm 319
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Mountainous An isolated house in the centre of the foreground A study
250
Three men on the bank of a river A woman washing A study
251
Italian villa within an enclosure A study 320
253
Forest scene A study
254
Woody scene with water along the extremity of the foreground A study
255
Temple or convent enclosed by a wall A study 321
257
Roman tower with the ruins of a church A study
258
Same In the centre of the view 326
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Man and a woman driving cattle 323
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Group of persons seated on a bank looking at a man
301
Young man holding a dog A study
308
Cattle watering A study
309
An open bald country A study ib 217 Campagna in the neighbourhood of Rome A study
310
Traveller seated A study
311
Traveller lying on the ground and his dog by him
312
Man leading a bull by the horn ib 230 Fishing boats lying near some houses A study
314
Forest scene A study ib 232 Rocky hills A study ib 233 Three persons in conversation Rocks and trees A study
315
Two men one seated at the foot of a blighted tree
316
Six oxen in a river A study ib 242 Clump of trees surrounded by water A study
317
Cataract surrounded by rocks A study
318
Bridge with a tower at each end of it A study
328
Rustic bridge over a brook A walled town A study
329
Woody scene with goats A study
341
Herdsman keeping cows on the banks of a river
348
Earl of Carlisle
359
No Page
365
Youth assisting a girl to dismount from an ass
370
Bold rocky scene and richly wooded
381
Claudes mill A stream gushes from the side of a hill 368
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Women reposing at the foot of a bridge
398
Boy The sulky boy with an apple E W Lake Esq
401
No Page 12 Blind man deceived by his daughter John Cole Esq
402
Father reading the Scripture to his family Baron Delessert
403
Twelfth night or Le gâteau des rois Montpellier ib 16 Marriage contract or Laccordé du village Louvre
404
Young woman paying her vows to Cupid
405
Woman driving cows and goats to pasture Louvre 377
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Same With a basket of flowers
410
Shepherd tending cattle three goats and a
411
Malediction of an offended parent Louvre ib 41 Punishment of a disobedient son Ditto
412
Pretty milk woman Baron J Rothschild
413
Mother and three children La trompette His Majesty
416
Spoilt child the latter is feeding a pet dog ib 60 Charitable lady visiting a sick man Louvre
417
Traveller reposing a man standing before him Cows
418
Poor orphan and her little brother asking charity ib 91 Two young women one is whispering in the others ear
425
Same standing by the side of a bed
426
Angry mother See No 116 ib 111 Young woman seated on her bed resisting the embraces of Cupid
429
J Purvis Esq
444
Open country destitute of trees and divided by a river A study 319
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Boy with a pair of compasses in his hand
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Page 59 - When Jesus therefore saw His mother, and the disciple standing by whom He loved, He saith unto His mother, Woman, behold thy son ! Then saith He to the disciple, Behold, thy mother ! And from that hour the disciple took her unto his own home.
Page 55 - And when they had blindfolded him, they struck him on the face, and asked him, saying, Prophesy, who is it that smote thee?
Page 74 - There was a certain creditor which had two debtors: the one owed five hundred pence, and the other fifty. And when they had nothing to pay, he frankly forgave them both. Tell me therefore, which of them will love him most? Simon answered and said, I suppose that he to whom he forgave most. And He said unto him, Thou hast rightly judged.
Page 149 - So on he fares, and to the border comes Of Eden, where delicious Paradise, Now nearer, crowns with her enclosure green, As with a rural mound, the champaign head Of a steep wilderness, whose hairy sides With thicket overgrown, grotesque and wild, Access denied...
Page 98 - Scarce had she finish'd, when her feet she found Benumb'd with cold, and fasten'd to the ground : A filmy rind about her body grows, Her hair to leaves, her arms extend to boughs : The nymph is all into a laurel gone, The smoothness of her skin remains alone.
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Page 342 - CLAUDE. 124. Landscape. A VIEW in the environs of Rome, which is seen in the distance beneath a glowing sunset. In the foreground to the left, under a cluster of trees, Claude himself is seated, and attended by a youth, who holds an umbrella over his head to shade him from the sun, while he is sketching a temple on an eminence on the opposite side. A herdsman and some goats complete the composition. This picture belonged to Frederick, Prince of Wales. C. 3 ft. 2 in., by 4 ft. 1 in. Engraved by Vivares...
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