— — ' — — — it A CATALOGUE OP ALL THAT NOBLE anv SUPERLATIVELY CAPITAL ASSEMBLAGE* o F VALUABLE PICTURES, DRAWINGS, MINIATURES, and PRINTS, THE PROPERTY OF THE Right Hon. Charles Alexander De Calonne, LATE PRIME MINISTER of FRANCE. /7U m /} 'S > , ^ U S Kt i m r A CATALOGUE OF ALL THAT NOBLE fc? SUPERLATIVELY CAPITAL ASSEMBLAGE O F Valuable Pictures, DRAWINGS, MINIATURES, and PRINTS, THE PROPERTY OF THE Right Hon. Charles Alexander De Calonne , LATE PRIME MINISTER of FRANCE ; SELECTED WITH EQUAL TASTE, JUDGMENT, AND LIBERALITY, During his Refidence in France, and his Travels through Italy, Germany, Flanders, and Holland, and while in England j AT THE IMMENSE EXPENCE OF ABOVE SIXTY THOUSAND GUINEAS , THERE IS ALSO INCLUDED A small elegant COLLECTION of CABINET PICTURES, BEQUEATHED TO HIM BY THE LATE MONSIEUR D'AR VE LEY, HIGH TREASURER of FRANCE; Forming together the moft fplendid Collection in Europe, which were intended for a magnificent Gallery at his late Houfe in Piccadilly. COMPRISING The INESTIMABLE WORKS of the moft admired MASTERS of the Roman, Florentine, Bolognese, Venetian, Spanish, French, Dutch, and English Schools. Which will be SOLD by AUCTION, B Y Meffrs. Skinner and Dyke , On MONDAY the 23d of March, 1795, and FIVE following Days, PUNCTUALLY AT TWELVE O’CLOCK, AT THE GREAT ROOMS, in SPRING GARDENS, BY ORDER OF THE NOW MORTGAGEES. To be publicly viewed Four Days preceding the Sale, (Sunday excepted.) Catalogues may be had, at Two Shillings and Six-pence each, in Spring Gaidens, alfo of MelT. SKINNER a a DYKE, Aldeifgate Street. Digitized by the Internet Archive in 2017 with funding from Getty Research Institute M . DE CALONNE, the Noble Proprietor , in 1789, w at building a mojl magnificent Gallery at bis late Houfe in Piccadilly, when the Revolution happened in France ; he fioon after left England, to join the Princes and J'everal of the French Nobility at Coblentz ; to affifl whom effectually , he not only raified the capital of his Fortune, fold bis town and country houfics, but alfio mortgaged this valuable Colledion. The Mortgagees lafi year refiolved to fell the fame, and had it removed for that pv.rpofe to Spring Gardens ; but fcarce one hundred and fifty Figures were arranged, when news arrived, that the Etnprefs of Ruff a would probably purchafe the whole Collodion, and the Mortgagees bought proper to pof pone the Sale, and left fixteen cafes unopened, compre~ bending the largcfi part of the Colledion :—hovjever, the connoiffeurs and lovers of the art were permitted to view the One Hundred and Fifty Pidures that were hung up, during a Jbort time ; but not a fingle article was offered for fale, fo that the whole Colledion remains entire. That the Public may be affured, that not a fingle article (Family Portraits excepted ) has either been added to or taken from the Colledion , a Catalogue of which, written by M. De Calonne, is in the poffeffon of Meff. Skinner and Dyke, as well as the Mortgagees, in which it is exprefsly fpecified, that in case a sale should TAKE PLACE, IT MUST CONSIST OF NONE BUT M. DE C A LON N E’s P R OP E R T Y. It is needlefs to expatiate on the merit and extraordinary value of a Colledion, which though only known in part, has raifed the admiration of artifts and ccnnoiffeurs, the fame of which had fpread through Europe, before M. De Calonne’s arrival in England, where his refearches were continued with avidity, and which, being aided by his liberality, and the large fortune he poffeffed, enabled him to procure the mofi cofly performances. His Colledion of exquifite Drawings and fcarce Prints, was wholly made in France ; where he alfo procured fome of his mofl valuable Pidures : and while he was in Paris, Monfieur D’Arveley, the High Treafurer of France, bequeathed to him his fmall, but Superb, Cabinet of Pidures, by which M. De Calonne’s Colledion became enriched with the celebrated Fete du Pillage, commonly called Le Teniers, aux Chaudrons. ( 4 ) No Collodion offered to the Public ever abounded with that variety of Che* D’ Oeuvres contained in this ; nor are we to be furprifed at the immenfe fum it has (of, when we confeder that it contains no lefs than I o Pidures by Titian ; 3 ly Paul Veronefe ; 6 by Tint or et ; 3 by Giorgione', 2 by Pordenone ; — The Annunciation, by that fcarce Mafer, Michal Angelo Buanorotti, which was purchafed at Venice, by M. De Calonne, out of the family for which it was painted. A Holy Family, by Raphael ; a ditto, by Leonardo D’Avinci ; 4 Pidures hyP.de Cortona ; I by Cor region 3 by Parmegiano', 1 by Schidone ; 4 by Carracci ; 10 by Guido', 2 by Dominichino ; 3 by Guer chinO', 4 by Albano ; 8 by S. Rofa 4 by Murillo', 10 by N. Pouffin j 8 by Claude ; 3 by Vernet, and 3 by Greuze. Of tho Dutch and Flemijh Schools, &c. — 14 Pidures by Rubens', 2 by Pourbus ; 8 by Vandyke ; 7 by Rembrandt ; 6 by Wouvermans ; 7 by Teniers', 2 by F. Meiris ; I by Meizu ; I by Vanderwerff ; 3 by G. Dow ; 2 by A. Ofade ; 3 by P. Potter } 3 by Berghem ; 5 by Cuyp ; 2 by A. Jfiandevelde ; 3 by Pynaker ; 2 by K. Dujardin j 1 by W. 'Vanderveldt ; 2 by Sir JoJhua Reynolds, &c. &c. It Jhould be, however , obferved, that fome inferior Piflures will be found in this Colled ion, M. De Calonne having been fometimes obliged to purchafe feveral together for the fake of a fine one ; fo that the originality and perfed condition of every Pi dure cannot be warranted ; but thofe inferior Pidures M. De Calonne never intended for his Gallery : and it is to be lamented that his quitting England fo fuddenly, caufed feveral of the firfl-rate Performances to remain unframed and uncleaned. Meff. SKINNER and DYKE beg leave to affure the Public , that this Colledion has been for fome time pafi in their cufiody ; and that by the Articles of Agreement with the prefent Mortgagees, it is fiipulated, that not a Jingle Lot, or Lots, Jhall be bought in, but that every Pidure Jhall be fold to the highefi bidder, f Airly, and without the leaf referve. PICTURES . FIRST DATs SALE, WEDNESDAY the 25th of MARCH, 1795. Goltzius LOT Moderen 2 M. Le Brun 3 Piazetti 4 F. Bolognefie S Italian 6 Titian 7 Italian 8 Hamilton 9 Italian 10 Tintorett 11 Scbalken 1 2 P. La Viccio »3 Furgufon SeHuens 1 4 Sal Rofa *5 Baffan 16 Corregio *7 Old Palma 18 Franks 19 Le Sueur 20 Old Grifiier 21 Van Loo 22 Velafquez 23 Mola 24 Del Sarto z 5 Titian 26 i 5Csr: A. Bacchand Venus and Satyr, with Fruit Two Sleeping Nymphs i2. — A Girl, a polygraphic copy ^ > 2. — 4 Two Portraits j M ■' C A Landfcape with Ruins and Figures f ^ St. J erome / 5* ' The Mother of Titian, a well authenticated portrait , it was £ purchafed at Venice by M. De Calonne A Subject from Ovid / / il-' 4? Mrs. Siddons, a poly graphic copy, from % - “ An Old Man’s Head, circular 1 ^ i " The Feaft of the Marriage in Cana 1 1 1 < & A Candle Light, a humourous charader 3 < 3^ ' A Shepherd with a Flute i " " A Landfcape with Ruins, and a Repofo ^ ^15'-' u A Sea Port, with Rock, &c. -3 - 5’”'" H The Four Seafons, wry fpirited and fine pictures S % A Leda, in Jlile of 4r £"'• M The Entombing of Chrift, d very capital performance , i» colouring /V equal to Titian Chrift taken before Pilate ^ ~ r~ The Holy Family A Landfcape, with Rocks, Caftles, and Figures ^ ** A Venus and Cupid, elegant 4" ' i> His own Portrait with a Child, a very fine fpirited pidure & s A Study of an Angel 4- >- ^ ^ * A Madona and Child, &c. £- ' G Ditto ( 16 ) t , , ( n . LOT Italian 2 7 Sufanna with the Elders ^ h J. Van Noort 28 A Landfcape, View in Flanders, with many Figures ” Sir Peter Lilly 29 A Gentleman’s Portrait, three-quarter, oval X * S " " Corregio 3° Jupiter and -Io, a jine copy (c <•" ' • Guido 3 1 Chrift crowned with Thorns, an undoubted pidure of the mafter _ but has been, in fame parts, nevo painted upon "S ! Titian 32 Adam and Eve driven from Paradife * ^ ■ ' lC * ~ Claude 33 An Italian Sea Port / G s K Eckhout 34 St. John preaching in the Wildernefs, equal to Rembrandt t f ^ tT Scbalken 35 A Girl and Young Man, candle-light, finging 3-' 3 ^ u Pordenone 36 Lucretia H ** ** 5 Vouet 37 A Madona and Child & '' " Tintcrett 38 A Portrait of a General Officer, imported from Venice by M. De Calonne .«> ‘ Sp S. Rofa 39 A Mountariious Landfcape ) 1 5 ' Spaniolet 40 The Offering of the Magi ^ " ' Hackert 4 1 A warm Landfcape, Woody Scene with a Road. ^ P. La Veccio 42 The Prodigal’s Feaft and Return, # /iz/r 3 - S' ~ ‘ Dominichino 43 Venus appearing to Atneas b PouJJin 44 A Bacchanalian Sacrifice & < S - G> Paduanino 45 The Subjedt of Hero and Leander S' IS* (a \ Titian 46 The Entombing of Chrift 6 ~ “ Paduanino 47 Adam and Eve in Paradife ' / /v -' i * Titian 48 A Portrait of a Noble Venetian C. Maratti 49 Chrift feeding the- Multitude, very capital 1 X 3* < - “ Luca Giordano 50 An allegorical Subjedt & ^ ^ •' ' P. Veronefe 5 1 Paris giving the Apple to Venus <3 *' 5 ^ ** Pordenone 5 2 The Competition between Apollo and Pan. IX / X - (r> Carr ache 53 The Flaying of Marius • ’ Cr- - M G. Seegers 54 St. Peter denying Chrift / ic ’P * U Van Dyck 55 King Charles I. a ’whole length ■ / 3 " / 3 ^ ~ Ditto 5 6 A Magdalen in Devotion f X ■- 1 if Molinaer 57 A Merry-making Af ^ «* V an Dyck 58 The Madona and Child ^ - ' % ' • PouJJin 59 Two — a Jupiter, an accademical fiudy, and the Mifer Lover:,, Quintus Matzius V. Helmont 60 A pair of Mu fical Conventions ^ De Vos 61 A Child’s Portrait f -** ! * “ P. Cortona 62 Hercules and Antious- t ** l ^ * Ditto 6 3 The Holy Family, with St. Elizabeth, on copper (e < b Van Tol 64 The Dutch School Mafter X X ^ 1 f ^ £ Caere hi no 65 Two — the Sybils / C IS - t> Clanche fi6 Safe F errata 67 Derick. Hals. 68 ■C. Marratt 69 OH-vier 70 PIslinaer 7 l W mvermans 73 Guido 73 Perhuj 74 Pi asc.it ti 75 Hobbime 76 Pallamedes 77 Breckelkamp 78 Snvaneveldt 79 Mignard So Zuccarelli St P. Brill Sa Titian 83 Teniers #4 ' *1 "The Interior of a large Temple ■'ffi, 6 "" 5 ' “ * 7 The Head of the Madona 3 1 ^ i C -• - A Portrait of a Lady, very highly finished y •» Alpheus and Arethufa ^ The Heath of Cleopatra, capital £ - 5 - ** A Shepherdefs, &e. “f->- + A Battle Piece, fine and fpirited plflure ^ 1 ' tl "'* *’ The Salvator Mundi, an oval / %*" A Man’s Portrait, « wry finijbed and capital piflure I % ' i * ■ An Old Woman and Girl, a domefiic ficene 1 ^ -- 6 ? A Landfcape with a Group of Trees, fine 2>i' 1C ' i! A Cpnverfation *Y'~ IC'« The Weaver Politician at his Loom 3^^ 16 " u A warm fine Italian Landfcape and Figures % ^ " Rebecca at the Weil, circular f'X" / The finding of Mofes, and Companion, « pair ^**7 s S ' v ’ A fine high finiihed Landfcape, Figures, by H. Carracbe Ik" lb The Entombing of Chrift, a/mall repetition of the large fi&ure at V erf alike Z 5 ”^' 4 - u The Alchymift In his Elaboratory, painted with great truth and £ fipirit One large gilt frame, 9 fmall ditto, and % with glafs £ END or ths FIRST DAY’S SALE or PICTURES. PICTURES. SECOND DAY’S SALE, THURSDAY the 26th of MARCH, 1795, Julian De Moni 2 Metzu 3 Modern 4 Marlow 5 Ditto 6 Mola 7 Hoblima 8 Chev. ifiberi 9 Eljheimer 10 Modern 11 G. Barett 12 Craejbeck 13 Greuze • *4 Sal, Rofa 15 Guido 16 F. Mola *7 Rembrandt 1S Rubens 19 Rembrandt 20 -A.N alegorical Subjeft in Compliment to M. De Calonns A Man holding a Glafs 4- ~ *" A Man’s Portrait, fmall, reading 4* ^ C 4? A Lady’s Portrait, A pair of Englilh Views 6"^ 0 A View in Italy The Holy Family, with a Group of Dancing Angels, capital A pleafing Landfcape from Nature f l * & Danae in the Golden Shower // -» A pair of fine Landfcapes, odagon Jhape , uncommon and *, valuable A Chymift in his Elaboratory 4 " C - A warm Landfcape View from Nature, a fine fpirited fiample of great merit Boors Fighting ^ •=** » * A Prayer to Cupid 3 / 3 " “ The Fall of the Rebel Angels, the original fiudy for his large pi dure of this fubjed St. Peter Weeping ff ^ 5 - 1 A Landfcape with Nymphs and Satyrs / 4“ c ’ tO w An Old Woman wich Game and Poultry, a fingular rich coloured and fine finijhea pidure, in high prefervation Maleager and Atalanta Hunting the Wild Boar, a very fine finijhed Jketch, full of magic genius A fmall Head of an Old Man ^ l ~ U- i' $ t'f ' Q <6 /f' 5- 4 ^ ' i$ . (c /£>' lOc' 3X ' * >r M n a u ( *9 ) Decker MT 21 Keyfer 22 Thealon 23 24 2 5 26 V. Cafielli 27 Van Keffel 28 jfordaens 29 Seb. Conca 3° Stella 3 1 Jan. Miel 3 2 P. De Le Veccio 33 P. Veroneffe 34 La Hire - 35 Netfcber 3 6 Jan Steen 37 { . Titian 38 Ditto 39 Rofa Tivoli 40 Snyders 4» Ger . Douw 42 Refiout 43 Ditto 44 Rubens 45 Pynaker 46 La Grennicr 47 Ditto 48 Zuccarelli 49 L % - 5 - fo A Cottage, a Rural Scene on the Banks ©f a Canal An Old Lady’s Portrait, on copper , oval l " i * u A Bacchant! Venus and Satyr, in water colours 6 (& -* •* A Girl 3^0'^ A Lady on her Couch, French School 3^ i A Girl’s Head, /mall The Rape of Helen, fine £ /% ' i& A pair with Filh, highly finijhed on copper 14"' l 4/' ‘ A large Pidture of a Shepherd and Milk Woman, with Goats and Cattle, fine , equal to Rubens Angelica and Medora, elegant " v Chrift with St. John and the Lamb, in black marble , a pleafing elegant picture, in a fuperior Italian gufio The Blowing Hot and Cold, one of the fine pictures of this mafier, we have to lament he did not often paint hifiory The Graces l*f^ « Our Saviour at the Houfe of the Pharifee, where the Magdalen anoints the Feet of Chrift, the fmall pitture for the larger at Venice Diana preparing for the Chace / 3 ^ eL" & A Lady and a Gentleman’s Portrait, fmall , very highly finijhed, and of the firfi clafs A Woman cutting Bread and Butter for her Child, a pleafing domeftic feene , and of his finijhed file Danaein the Golden Shower, from the Grand Duke'e pictures at Florence, very finely copied The beautiful Venus, ditto, the companion 4 J' 3 - A Landscape with Goats and Figures, fine 1*7 / y * A Boar Hunting, a mofi deferable picture of this great mafier 3 l' y i C A fmall Portrait of a Young Officer, highly finijhed f C iC - * A very capital Picture of the Parting of Heftor and Andro ^ mache, a grand comp fit ion and well coloured, cofi M. De Calonne a very confiderable fum The companion, the Continence of Scipio, equally fine 'hX " ** The Madona attended by various Saints, a fine /ketch 5 (a - A Landfcape with a Bridge and Cattle, a fine clear pleafing q n picture The Graces attendant on Cupid, very elegant and pleafing fubjefts 5 3 The Companion. Tbefe two pitturos cofi M. De Calonne 5 - } guineas A Pair of Landfcapes with pleafing rural Figures, of his befi f Italian fiile and touched with fpirit /r- 4 ®^ 52 IX'* il^ w u LOT ( ' W ) Sir F. Bourgeois Moucberon Rubens, Carr ache Parmegiano Rubens Lingelback Claude W, V. D. Velde B . Lutti Seb. Ricci Paduanino A, V, D. Velde La Hire l . Titian Dufaert 1 Titian Giorgione 50 A Landfcape, Cattle and Figures >> ^ ' 51 A warm clear Landfcape and Figures si . ^ i h [ / ir 52 ..An eral?lepaatipal Pifture of the Horrors , and ^fiferies of W*r 4 a fine finijhed Jketcb on copper / ^ 53 Jupiter and J.u, no 8 - b ' 5 4. A Holy Family, file of Raphael 55 A large and capital Picture of Sufanna with the Elders f& PC' . * ** 56 La Cours du Chat, an antient diverfion in the villages of Holland, in Jiile of Wouvermans, fne ' '/■- ‘ 57 A Landfcape with a fine ferene and aerial Effeft /f> - / a 58 A Storm at Spa, with a. Shipwreck 0 1 IG ~ ^ 59 A carious Xandfcape with Ruins, in Mofaic, brought from 7 ' 3 * «, Rome,, bp M, tye Ca^onns 60 Hercules and Qmphale & " *- 61 Nymphs and Satyrs, « capital picture " I'X - * 62 Cleopatra and Portia, a pair of very elegant and capital pictures 31 ^ ' 63 A Landfcape, with the fubjedl of Mercury, Argus, and Io. .Thy judicious arrangement of this group of figures and animals, as . . r alfo the fine file of the landfcape, fully convinces us of the fur- I 3 i- / ' V ' prifing genius and abilities of the painter, whofie capital pictures are fcarce, for he died at the age of only 27 years, one of the great efi ornaments of the Holland School', cofi M. De Calonns 500 Louis d'ors 64 The Finding of Mofes. La Hire was a fine colourifi, and , pojfejfed great merit ; this is one of his works of much tafie and 1-^ ' ' " elegance 65 The , Ipfant Chrift and , St. John embracing, a bold and fine p j ^ „ •, • painted picture pf this valuable artifi 66 This Painter’s Chamber, with Himfelf, Wife, and Child, a '{'* iC> brilliant high finijhed picture 67 A fine Portrait of a Noble Venetian 3 b "-fh ~ w 68 Cupid Sleeping, watched by a Satyr , an emblematical rtprefent- ' j % ■' ~ Grijf Robert •, Rubens Fery ation 69 A pair of Landfcapes, with Variety of Birds, Dogs and Dead 3 ^ & Game, pleafing pictures 70 A View of the Deftruttion of the Old Bridge at Paris,— Dittp, K ( « a View of Tours, a pair 71 A Subjeft, reprefenting Juftice, Peace and Plenty, a model for .? - ___ ; < the larger picture in. the Luxembourg Gallery 72 A Pair of Encampments with many Figures, pleafing bujy 4 « _ >■ feenes, on copper ( 21 ) Ah guard IOT 73 Vanderneer 74 N. Poujfin 75 Mich.Ang.Battalia 7 6 Pan Dyck 77 Guido '8 Pynaker 79 C. Cignar.s 80 Madam Le Brun 81 Greuze 82 A Landfcape with the HolyFamily, St. Elizabeth and St. John, with Angels, a very graceful compofition, one of the fineji figures extant of this admired mafer A warm ferene Evening View on a Canal in Holland, a beau- tiful effect, may vie with Claude , a very attractive fine picture Danae in the Golden Shower, prefumed a portrait of fome favourite mifirefs of the nobleman it veas painted for. It is undoubtedly one of the mofi finijhed works of this great painter A Mountebank with many Figures, a pleafing and diverting fcene The Virgin with Saints, a fine Jketch , a defignfor a large altar piece Chrift on the Crofs, a delicate high finijhed picture > L 3 A Landfcape with Ferry Boats, Cattle and Figures, a fcene truly piCturefque, taken from nature, painted with accuracy, and fine effed A Charity, a noble well compofed picture, full of grace, dignity and character A Girl, a portrait from hature, leaning on a book QA" A Boy, ditto, for companion j ■' * £-51' ' \x ?r<5 - 41 ' ■ y 6 33' iZ An* * 70 '' 7 '“ END of the SECOND DAY’s SALE. E PICTURES . THIRD DAY’S SALE, FRIDAY the 27th of MARCH,- 1795. LOT Guerchino r Mela 2 Breughel 3 Dufart 4 Boucher 5 Le Moine 6 Barthelemy 7 Grayer 8 Schalken 9 Ghiro Ferri 10 L. Giordano 11 Weeninx 12 Tintorett 13 Mignard H Wouvermans IS Albano 16 A.V.D. Velde 17 Breughel 18 Mignion 19 Baffan 20 Van Der Meulen 21 N. Poujfin 22 P. Panini 23 Nich. Maas 24 Titian 2 5 J\. Magdalen ^3-* 10 ' *" Venus and Pfyche, with Bacchantes at a Fountain 0- R " i M A View in Flanders, a fmall high finijhed pidure I ' (5 Children Playing, a village fcene 3‘3r - * Jupiter and Califta / ** The Defpair of Pfyche 1 1 ■' t l ' u A Pair — Jupiter and Antigone, and a Bacchante. Venus Hi ** « Nymphs Dancings colouring equal to Rubens 3 3 ( -2- ~ ** A Magdalen in Devotion, a Lamp Light, engraved in mezzo- tinto , Smith ( ** t **; Chrift with the Samaritan Woman 4 J ■' ‘ A Sleeping Venus, with Satyrs,-# rich and fine piece of colourings fif £ ^ j flile of Titian A Partridge and Dead Game, a beautiful finijhed pidure / X i 7- — The Ecce Homo, capital and undoubted f Q A Portrait of Madam Savigne, #« elegant fmall oval ~/5 ! > A Bufy Group, Gentlemen Hawking, fmall pidure H 3^ Pi — ■ A Venus at as Fountain, with Cupids, « beautiful cabinet __ . picture, on copper A fmall Landfcape with Cattle, fine ^ “ A View in Flanders, ditto 2l' 16 - A fmall Picture of Fruit, a moft exquifite fine aud finijhed picture ( Z ' ' ~ Lot with' his Daughters -* A Banditti Robbing the Waggons with Paffengers, a very SfiC' interefting fcene Narciffus, a finijhed fiudy for a larger pi dure .14 ' 'V A Pair, with Architedlure, Ruins, and Figures <• L '■) -* A Chamber, with a Woman fuckling a Child, a very high / 4 ^ finijhed pidure, with a powerful ejfed , equal to Rembrandt The Holy Family, fine fid /f. 3 - *■< C 23 ) Dietrich LOT z6 Italian 27 Guercbino 28 V. Der Helfi 29 Cor. De Vos 30 Martin Ztrgh 3 1 Teniers 32 Rembrandt 33 Jofepini 34- Val. Cafiille 33 Lud. Carrache 36 William Mieres 37 Rottenhamer Lf 38 Breughel Dietrich 39 Guido 40 Sal. Rofa 4 1 Porbus 42 Bolognefe 43 Cafa A . va 44 Sir F. Bourgeois : 4S P . D, Cortona 46 L. Giordano 47 Cuyp . 48 Cuyp 49 The Flight into Egypt, a moft pleafing well compofed piflure, the ejfetf truly harmonizing A Sleeping Venus $ o'* Endymion, a very capital performance «*■ X' His own Portrait. This painter is ejleemed the Van Dyck of Holland, it is mojl admirably coloured, and highly finijhed a very capital piliure An Old Man’s Portrait, with a Ruff. This artift was a rival of Van Dyck, wherein he often excelled ; this is one of his bejl portraits, and in fine prefervation Martha and Mary in the Kitchen, a pleafing efieSt and delicate pencil, the works of this mafier are fcaree A Village by Moon Light, with Boors warming by the Fire, a fine piece of colouring, touched with a fmart and lively penal Rembrandt’s Mother, fmall tlfe' 3^6=’ Venus requeuing the Armour for ALneas, and Companion, a pair of elegant pictures Amnon and Tamar, a large and capital picture, a mafier ly grand compofition The Holy Family, with St. John, elegant A Hermit in Devotion, a remarkable fine cabinet" picture, fmall The Bath of Diana, and Difcovery of Galifta, an Affemblage of beautiful figures, of the finefi clafs of this mafier A Pair of Landfcapes with Rocks and Figures. The pencilling and execution in fintjhing, fuperior to the works oj Sal. Rofa, whofe flile he has taken for his model — fine Andromeda chained to the Rock v ^ ** St. Anthony- De Padua, very capital and undoubted of the mafier Solomon’s Idolatry, a fingidar fiile. The hiftorical works oj this mafier • are farce, his time being mofily employed in painting portraits A grand Landfcape, much in the tafie of N. Tonjfin 3 ' A Turk on Horfeback, attended by feveral Officers X*? ' & ' A General Officer’s Portrait, with a Field of Battle irt the diilance The Offering in the Temple, a noble dcfign ^ ‘"‘sr t. Nicobe with her Children puniihed-by Apollo, and Meleager, the companion — a pair of elegant cabinet pictures, on copper, of the fineft of his works A warm Landfcape, with Horfes, Sheep, and Figures, a very clear ana beautiful ejfeft Ditto, of equal merit \ s %’s ** 63' V 47^' - 35^(4 33-a 3^ lb 2X 1 ^ 4^ % Q> it ( 4 * 1 ' no LOT Loutherbourgh 50 P. D. Cortona 5,1 Sal. RoJ'a 52 P. D, Cortona ,53 Gu'h 54 Rotten Hamer,. y.55 V el-vet Brughel Polenborgb "Jan Miel Le'Moine P. Cortona Berghem Rubens Pouffin B olognefe . C. Dolie fVatteaux 61 P. V eronefs . 6 2 66 22 ' X H 0 s 5 JLS' 4 - 25 '- f A Sea Storm, with a Shipwreck, painted with great fpirit and lb\ t fine execution Time difcovering Truth, a noble defign, a moft capital pidure A- A large ; Landfc'ape, a grand Jcene, full of tafie and fpirit 3 3 — ^ ^ 2 - ' .The Stoning of St. Stephen. This animated reprefentaiion of the firfi mertyr who died for the C hr if i an Faith, is undoubtedly a very capital performance of this great mafier The Madonawith fleeping Infant Jefus, oval. The idea of this pidure is fufficient to efiablijh -the Reputation of Guido for elegance, beauty and tafie Paris with the Graces. Few pidures deferve more the attention of the connoiffeur than this fmall cabinet pidure : he fiudied in tbe Venetian Sch ol, by which he attained that brilliancy of colouring , — on copper Nympths Bathing. A peculiar foftnefs is the charaderifiic of this nuifief s painting , with a clear harmonious colouring The Prodigal in Repentance. Miel has given great fpirit and exprefifion to this defirable little pidure, circular The Sacrifice to Iphigena, a very noble well compofed pidure, .though it has fame extravagancies of the French file, yet it abounds with great beauties both in colouring and defign. Cofi M. De •Calonne 250 guineas A Holy Family, a fmall and elegant cabinet pidure 4 f A Group of Cattle fording a Brook, painted with a foft fweet Jpirit ed pencil, the an'mals drawn with beauty and corrednefs The Sketches for the two large Pi&ures in the Ceiling at Whitehall, one the Queen of Sheba before Solomon, the other Either and Ahafuerus. They pofefs all the fire, animation, and , genius of this great artifi Rebecca receiving the Bracelets, with Abraham’s Servants, afcarce cabinet pidure in his finefi manner-, Paulo painted few cabinet pidares, being mofily engaged in large public works Vulcan’s Cave, with the Cyclops, a grand fine painted pidure . & A h" ’ A grand and . noble Landfcape, much in the gufio of N. Poujfin ~ (X ' ’’ The Annunciation, a beautiful high finifhed pidure. He has taken the Chapel of Loretta for the dwelling place, as may be qbferved in the back ground of this pidure Ladies Bathing. A pleafing afiemblage, painted with that lively tn 3 i\' and fpirited pencil that animates his befi works X* - ( 2 5 J LOT Claude 67 Angelica 68 Pla/zer 69 Potter 70 Le Due 7 1 Vernet 72 Ditto 73 J'aa Djri 74 Gerard Dou-jj 75 Mitres 76 W.VanDe Velde 7 7 Rembrandt J& Morellio 79 A fine Landscape. The exalted merit cf thif mat chiefs artlfi it prevalent in every part of this grand feene , in which le has intro - ducedthefiubjell of St. George with the Dragon ; its not doubled but it mufi have keen a favourite landfcape with him/ elf, for he has made an etching of it with his own hands — a very capital picture A pair of elegant circles of Jupiter and Califta, and Orpheus and Euridice. This artijl has a plenfng tafle in all her works A pair of Converfations. Platzer had a powerful fancy and a pleafng pencil ; they are rich and pleafant pictures, full of amufe - ment, in fine prefervation A Landfcape with a Goofe and Ducks. Potter was very accu- rate in all his imitations of nature ; this is a fpecimen of his great merit A Portrait of a Gentleman and a Lady, a beautiful high-finifhed picture, a chafie and fine effect A View of the Baths in the Environs of Naples, a pidturefque Scene, with Ruins and Buildings, the Remains of Antiquity. Vernet' s figures, which are painted with good tafle, and placed with propriety, tend much to enliven his pictures The Companion, equally defirable / 0 f ^ ® The Holy Family. This painter's hifiorical works are very fcarce, his time being moftly taken up by portrait painting. This is a va- luable and beautiful picture of his befit colouring A Servant Girl getting Water at a Well. This extraordinary artifi's works fiand rated the firfi of all the Dutch School, for the beautiful and exquifite fiile of finifihing. Douw was a pupil of Rembrandt’s, whofie bold manner of light and fihade he blended with the harmonious pleafing fiile of his own A Boy making Bubbles. One of the finefi and mofil finifihed pic- tures of this furprifing painter A moft capital Pidlure of an Engagement at Sea between the Englilh and Dutch Fleets. One of the high-finijhed Dutch pic- tures of this inefiimable mafier . The piitures he painted while he lived in Holland, are in much higher repute than thofe he painted after he refid ed in England A very capital Portrait of a Young Gentleman, half length. Rembrandt has united all the po veers of his art to fur prize our admiration in this pleafing character, which is undoubtedly one of the finefi pictures he ever painted A Satyr with Tygers and Young, evidently after feeing the Works of Reubens. A capital and noble fample of the powers of this great genius — a capital performance F WfS'W" * ' ^ ^ " u 7 ^ i*’ 9 ^ i%- u i£ J" it - \ ( 26 ) M oreilio 80 Titian 8l G. Lair e/s 82 Mr. Weft 83 Pordenone 84 Cannaletti 85 Wouvermans 86 Guido 87 Francis Mieris 88 G. Metzu 89 The Madona and Infant Saviour, a graceful well-placed group, in his fineft Jtile of colouring Caefar Repudiating Pompeia. We find few c/'Titian’s works fo trying for the powers of art ; here he has wonderfully fucceeded, the compofition replete and full of energy ; one of the inter efting and capital of his works Jacob and Laban. This celebrated artift has judicioufiy chofen a very interefting fubjed ; the various paffions of Love, Joy, and Surprize, are all beautifully expreffed, the compofition replete and elegant, one of his fineft pictures Simeon offering Chrift in the Temple, a chafte, grand and well compofed pidure, one of his fineft works The Holy Family, a fine dejign, exhibits the rich and powerful ejfed of the Venetian colouring A View on the Grand Lake at Venice. Exhibits one of the moft noble and extenfive fcenes of that renowned City, including in one view all the principal public buildings, with its Jhipping and commerce', it is impojjible to itjiagine or behold a more capital or interefting view, the figures truly charaderiftical portraits of the people, the whole in complete union A Battle Piece, a fine clear pi Bure ; the fpirited animation and lively reprefentation of this banditti, is painted in his fuperior ftile, and in perfed pre/ervation — very capital Hero and Leander, the idea of fubjed truly great and expreffive, with more force of colouring than ufual A Country Girl offering Fruit to fell to an Old Woman. This pidure, unqueftionably , is one of the moft high finijhed and pleafing ever Jeen of this fcarce and efteemed mafter, from the Cabinet of Monf. D’Arveley An elegant Domeftic Scene, a Lady in her chamber playing with a Dog, while the Hufband, returning from the Chace, filently enters the room, agreeably meaning to furprize her. Metzu always treated his fubjed with a fuperior degree of tafte, ' The whole is a captivating pleafing pidure, from the Cabinet of Monf, D'Arveley / wa - * S3 WZ-* i > •- i ' V u ¥3" id' ~ m wo— END of the THIRD DAY’s SALE. ®®§®§®®®®®®®§®®S®®®®®® ®®®®®®®®®®®®®®®®§®®®®S® PICTURES. FOURTH DAY'S SALE, SATURDAY the 28th of MARCH, 1795. LOT Frit. Genovefa i Lud. Carr ache z F. Hals 3 Schalken 4 Van Dyck 3 Rembrandt 6 Teniers 7 Van Huyfum 8 Denner 9 Permgiano 1 o Holbein 1 1 Steep 1 2 Sal. Rofa 13 Le Seuer 14 iV. PouJJin 1 5 Teniers 1 6 Wouvermans 1 7 V.D.Heyden 18 //. D. Velde 4.4” it VjHRIST delivering the Keys to St. Peter The Holy Family /Q '' iC- - v A Portrait of a Young Lad, JUle of Van Dyck /4 " i ' A Magdalen, a /mail high finijhed pi Bure & u The Crucifixion, « w/y fine Jkeich , defigned for the great Altar Piece , ^ 4 > 5 ^* w A Young Officer, a //Wy elegant portrait , fmall 4 * ' The Temptation of St. Anthony, « fpirited fmall piBure 3 - J A Vafe with Flowers. The great merits of this artifi are fa well known, it is needlefs to fay more than its being a capital and leau- tiful piBure A Man’s Portrait. No painter ever finijhed the minutias of nature with fuch accuracy and precifion. This is one of thofe furprifing and elaborate portraits The Madona, with Angels, Infant Chrift, and St. John. Of the pupils that fucceeded Raphael, this artifi pojfejfed the graces in a fuperior degree , — truly elegant A Man’s Portrait, a very exprejfive fine head , finijhed with great delicacy % 7 - 47 - 5 4 p r A Subteraneous Stable, with a Spotted Horfe, a fine warm and forcible eJfeB The Battles of Alexander, painted with great fpirit and mafierly execution,— -a pair The Holy Family, with St. Elizabeth, a beautiful cabinet piBure Rebecca at the Well. This and the companion piBure are the tefiof the great genius and fuperior abilities of Pouffin A fmall Mountanious Landfcape 3 lj ^ A fmall beautiful Landfcape, a clear fine toned piBure , finijhed in a fine fiile A View of Cologne on the Rhine. This cabinet piBure may jufily be offered as one of the mafier pieces of this artifi Jo cele- brated in this line ; the figures by- 14 " 14 (s> 3 *-■ 3 5 "- l 4 6'3-io 4-4 Z LQT Slingeland l 9 Cortona 20 Titian 21 Guido 22 Rubens 23 Fragonard 24 Rembrandt 2; Eljheimer 26 Leo Da Venici 27 Rembrandt 28 he Nain 29 Rubens 3 ° Moralis 3 1 Cer. Terburgh 32 Old Weeninx 33 Watteaux 34 Rembrandt 3 ; ( 23 ) A Boy Fifhing, a very fine high finifioed picture The Temple of the Sybils, a J, mall defign for the large frefco painting in the Pamphilo Gallery at Rotne The Matter of the Orcheftra with his Pupils. It is impojfible to conceive a group of figures finer placed , or more judicioufly contrafied in char after, than this firfiall cabinet, prefumed to be a repetition of a large one of the famefubjeft by Titian, the colouring rich and harmonious The Nativity. By the free andfpirited file of painting, it may be prefumed themodel for the pifture of this fubjeft at Verfailles — elegant An Old Man’s Head, a fiudy The Vifitation. The idea of this compofition has much of the chafe and fublime ; M. De Calonne gave him 250 Louis d\rs for it An Old Man’s Portrait, finely painted , equal to Titian 45 ^ 'f & '4 A 3 . 14 A Subject from Ovid, Candle Light, a fine pifture of this fcarct 53 - 36 mafler, which Sir fojhua Reynolds fold far 100 guineas The Madona, Infant Saviour, and St. John, a valuable and beautiful cabinet pifture A Landfcape View in North Holland, very fine 5 c?' - / /->■-' A Farm Yard with Peafants and Poultry. Unquefiionably one of 1 , the mofi agreeable fcenes of rural and domefiic happinefs Rome Triumphant, an emblematical finijbed fetch, full of genius, ^ : < and finely coloured Chrift bearing his Crofs. This artifi is hy the Spaniards know* by the name of the divine Moralis, occafioned by his giving that chafie and exprejjive charafter to his paintings A Lady with her Mufic Matter. The choice of this artifi's fubjefts are in general much more pleafing and elevated than many of his countrymen, his works are in great eftimation for tafie and correft- nefs of dftgn, with a mellow delicacy of finijhing ; this pifture pojfejjes all the deferable Qualities of Terburgh. From the Cabinet of Mtinf. De Arvelev An Italian Sea Port, Ruins, and Figures, a grand fcene, with a brilliant force of colouring A Party of Soldiers plundering a Village. Shews the univerfality of the genius of this artifi, painted with great fpirit , and finely coloured The Good Samaritan, a fmall gem of Rembrandt’s. His cabinet piftures are invaluable // — 7 S4 ' 7 -r" -X 10 ty'll- ■fad 54 54 /z T ‘.rbourg Claude i\ Rembrandt PcuJJin Ruyfdael Grueze Ditto Alex. Veronejfe Rubens Sir F. Bourgeois Dominichino Cuyp Pynaker P. Panini Old Palma Spaniolet ( 29 - ) LOT 36 4 $ The Family of De Witt, the famous Minifter and Patriot of Holland. Excluji-ve of ling a fatnily fo eminent, it is one of the finejl pi Bures ever painted by Terbourgh A plealing beautiful Landfcape, with the fubjedt of Apollo and Marius. The elegance of defgn, and harmony of colouring, never fail our admiration An Old Lady’s Portrait, half length, with a Bible, very uncom* monly high finijhed, with a force of colouring the true charaBer of his finejl works Jupiter and Antiope. Capital, much in file of the antique A Landfcape with a Bridge, a View from Nature. It is impojfihte to go beyond the ejfeBs produced by this great artijl, in a Jlile quite his own La Fille in Extacy, a very fine and exprejjive face, painted in his beft time The Companion, of equal merit 1 — i 3 Hercules and Omphale. No figures can pojfibly be better imagined to exprefs the poets Ideas, or to authenticate the tafle and genius of Veronefle, who united the Rotnan correBnefs with the Venetian colouring — capital St. George with the Dragon, a fpirited fubjeB, treated with all the powers of merit combined in the Works of Rubens A Landfcape with Cattle, a warm Evening, a ferene and beautiful effedt Lot with his Daughters, a grand well compofed piBure 4/^-*^ A Warm Landscape with Cattle. This mafter, after many ideal imitations of Wouvermans, Berg hem, &c. Jiruck out a manner entirely his own, and far furpajl for beautiful tints of air and J'un- Jhine, all the Dutch Mafiers ; this is a f ample of the greatefi per- feBion. A moft exqujite fine piBure, formerly in the famous cabinet cfMonf. V. D. Linden, at Dort A Landscape, upright form, with a fine Group of Cattle and Figures. This artijl Jludied to reprefent the lufire and brilliant warm effeBs of fun-Jbine, in which he has excelled with a finart and delicate execution of pencil A Grand Scene of fome of the moft noble Fragments of Antique Ruios and Buildings,, in which he has introduced the fubjedt of Curtious leaping the Gulf. A fine and capital piBure The Marriage of St. Catharine, a very chafte fine piBure The Roman Charity, a very exprejjive and fine JubjeB , the colouring more clear and harmonious than any piBure known of this great mafier 37 38 41 49 TjiS id'X & 4 ^ £ie y4'ti- fx ix. 54- i% Teniers { 3 ° ) LOT 52 A Tooth Drawer. Its impoffible'to fee a finer Jpecimen tf fy'ji- "fQ „ T eniers, the exprejfions truly natural, the colouring glowing, with P. Veronese a fpirited and vivid pencil 53 The Holy Family. This fine fwbjett happily poffeffes she clearnefs fe ^ and fine tone of colouring for which his works are fo much admired / Rubens .54. A Noble Study of Children, .' for the Cieling at Whitehall. ^ Tt>e mafierly hand of Rubens is predominant in every part — very ‘ ^ capital Rembrandt 55 Esther, Haman, and Ahasuerus, very expre Hive. We ^ . . have to lament that Rembrandt had not fludied in Italy, J?e was a ' J / ' ^ ^ mofl fur prizing genius for colouring and forcible effett, furpaffes all Van Dyck competition — a very noble and capital pidture 56 A Lady’s Portrait, whole length. With a fuperior grace, dignity, and elegance, Y. Dyck treated portrait painting, time has ‘ k ' ' evinced, for he yet ftands unrivalled ; the beautiful carnation and delicate tints of the face and hands are admirable, the fatt in gar- ment eafy and flowing— the whole a very capital and beauti- ful pidture Ditto .57 A Lady, the companion picture, equally replete and full of cha- f'fC s [ ( ratter. M. De Calonne paid Sir Jolhua Reynolds 500 / guineas for the two pittures Cuyp .58 A Landfcape with Cows, on the Banks of a Canal, one of thofe . clear fafcinating pittures which are the admiration of this moji IT / Claude ineftimable mafier 59 A fmall beautiful Landfcape, full of tafie of his beft time, a rare cabinet jewel OJlade 60 A Cottage, a domeftic fcene, with a Woman winding Yarn, a rich and brilliant coloured picture . M. De Calonne paid A. De Sarto 200 guineas for it at a fale 62 The Madona, our Saviour, and St. John, circular. This mafier pojfeffed much of the file of Raphael, a very chafie and JOf) Guido delicate pitture, in fine prefervation 62 St. Michael driving down the Rebel Angels. It .is rare to meet . ^ ^ with pittures of the fmall cabinet clafs-dike this — a very valuable ; 1 ' and fine work Schedoni 63 The Holy Family, a moft perfett jewel, full of grace and ^ fweethejs. Schedoni was a fcholar of Corregio, who he excelled : " x * ^ in thefe fubj r etts. Cofi 350 Louis d'ors Raphael 64 The Holy Family. The numberlefs fpurious copies retailed in every fale, under the fanttion f this great mafier' s name, would 0 . s. 1 & almofi make one df credit every pitture ; this evidently Jhews marks of genius and originality to place it beyond the reach of doubt— very, capital LOT Rubens 6 S K. Du Jardin 66 Le Sueur 67 Wynants nnd 68 Lingelback J. Both 69 P drmigiano 70 Claude " 1 Vernet 72 Le Brun 73 "Michael Angelo 74 Van Der Hey den 75 76 ( 3 1 ) The Madona and Infant Christ, a fngularly beautiful fmall finijhed picture. Rubens has exerted all the powers of his rich colouring on this exquifite performance A fmall Landfcape with Cattle and Figures, very highly finijhed , in his hefi file The Holy Family, a fmall elegant pidlure ^>0 Ok . A clear warm Landfcape, a View taken on the Side of the Road. This painter finijhed in a high and beautiful ftile , his Trees and Foliage, the figures interefiing and finely introduced — an elegant cabinet picture A fine warm clear Landscape. This mafier has happily united the finijhed execution of the Dutch School to the grand Jcenes of Nature in Italy ; this combination produces the mofi deferable effect, and fafecinates our admiration. The whole is beautiful and in perfect prefervation The Holy Family, with St. John, &c. &c. The graceful difeplay of this fine compofed picture would do honour to Raphael, his mafier ; the whole harmonious , and painted with great freedom and fepirit A Sea Port on the Coaft of Italy, a noble Profpedt with the Remains of a capital Building. The beautiful and feerene effedl of this picture is truly captivating A Grand View near Tivoli. It is vifible Vernet has endea- voured at the file of Salvator Rofa, but finijhed with more brilliancy and effect A Sacrifice to Hymen, circular, one of the mofi tafieful and elegant works of Le Brun The An unci at ion. This pidiure has been handed down as the undoubted original in the family where M.De Calonne bought it at Venice, and paid for it 500 ducats A View in the City of Leyden, a very clear p leafing picture. This celebrated painter aimed at a different precfon of finijbhig and effedt from all others, having the appearance of nature reduced to miniature by the camera, vcithout the regular procefs of art ; the figures very beautiful and interefiing, by Adrian Van De Velde. A mofi deferable cabinet picture from Monf. D’Arveley y s collection A fmall Pifture, the Interior of a Stable, with Cows, &c. The beautiful and glowing effedi of light is happily conceived, and renders the whole truly pleafing 4 q <, 1 10 . 5 ^ i-f-0 cyvA /OC opo • P. Potter A. Oftade K. Du Jar din Wouvermans OJtade Titian A. Del Sarto Rubens Giorgione Gainjboraugh f ■' ^ ljj& Claude Ditto LOT 77 86 iu'j.b 78 79 80 82 83 84 I/O 9jbc ( 32 ) A Dutch Cabaret, Peafantry of both Sexes Dancing,, Drinking, and making Merry. No painter ever compofed thefe fubjeds better than Oftade, nor drew with greater truth the native characters of the Boors of Holland, the whole fcene is pleafeng and. animated. It is impofible in the art of colouring, for richnefs and ejfeft, to furpafs this beautiful piCi.ure ; when pictures of Oftade pojfeffes thefe high qualities, they truly become invaluable. Cofi M. De Calonne 400 Louis d’ors A Pleasing Landscape, with Cattle and Figures. This mafter r s foie guide and attention was to nature in the drawing of his animals and figures, which are very accurate ; the whole has a glowing and clear effect, truly a very capital picture of thisfcarce artifi A Landfcape, with a variety of Horfes and Figures ; one of his accurate and finijhed pleafing cabinet pictures, in good prefervation A Landfcape, a ruftic and piflurefque fcmce, with Cottages on the fide of a Road, painted with a bold and brilliant effect, one of his moft capital pictures Venus and Cupid. The fubjeCt has been often repeated, but he has never been more fuccefsful in the glowing rich tones of colouring — very capital A Venus and Satyr. The animation and fpirit, the watchful attitude of the Satyr is a mafierly performance The Assumption. When Rubens was not controuled, but left to a liberal fancy, we fee that true magic fire and genius which makes his Jketches fo valuable ; this is one of his grandefi defigns Paris with the Three Graces. The pleafing brilliancy and glowing tints of this elegant group, furpaffes moft of his works. It is evident Rubens fiudied and attained the effeCl and colouring from this fine Venetian mafier A Girl with Pigs. When Sir J. Reynolds fir ft faw this picture in the Exhibition, he was Jiruck with the fimplicity and exquifiie / £ <3 ^ refemblance ofi nature, and purchafed it of Gainfborough at his own fixed price, nor did he ever mean to part with it, till folicited as a particular favour by M. De Calonne, who paid him 300 guineas for it A Landscape. This pleafing and enchanting fcene prefents one of the moft delightful landf capes of Italy, with a fweetnefs and ferenity of air truly in character with that country, the happy embelijhment of the caftle on the rifing ground, forms an elegance and divides the diftance. The whole is captivating, and one of the fineft pictures of this admired artifi Ditto, the Companion, of equal beauty and merit (jiao A 7 - H - ( 33 ) Cie-v. V. Werff LOT D. 88 Lot with his Two Daughters. The tafte and elegance with which V- D. Werff has treated this JubjeCl , would honour the firjl Italian majlers, the compojition is piCturtfque and coneife, the dijlribution of light and Jhadow bold, with a glowing rich har- monious co'ouring , the whole finijhed in a manner never before excelled Sir J. Reynolds 89 A Nymph, a pleajing fubjett, and was a favorite of this admirable artifi, for he has repeated it with fame alterations. It is painted in a great and mafaerly Jlile for freedom and fpirit ; force and harmony of colouring may vie with the b eft vjorks of Titian, or Van Dyck J. JJfelyn 90 A View near Rome of Pont Mo la, a grand Seen?, of a warm pleafing effeft, finijhed with preeifion and delicacy — c apital Teniers 91 An Interior, called Le Bonnet Rouge, of a Flemish Farm House, with Boors Smoking and Regaling. This mafaerly and Jurprizing performance unites, all the defaribable qualities of Teniers, both for char alter, compofition, etnd colouring , with a fprightly animated pencil — Truly a Chef D’Ouvre 2 f. Poujfin 92 Th* Triumph ofD avi d . I ho grandeur and fuperior tafte of this great artifi ismanifefi in the judicious dijlribution of this fine JubjeCl ; in the centre of the procejfion he has placed David, faupporting the head of Goliah, m a /pirited graceful attitude, led out by martial vtufic ; on the public buildings are placed mufical females and bards , chaunting hymns in honour of the victorious triumph ; all this firjl inter efts our udmiration, and prevents the attention being divided with the crowds of eager fpeClators, and followers, whofa vifible emotions and pajfions are wonderfully exprejfive of joy, faurprife , and admiration ; on the whole, a mafter piece of the great eft per- fection , where he has happily united the graces of the antique with his own clajfical knowledge. Purchafed by M. De Calon ne from Lord Carysfor^, for Zoo guineas D . Teniers. 93 A Village Feast called Le Teniers aux Chaudrons, The extraordinary Merit and Beauties of this Chef D’Ouvre has been handed down with univerfal admiration ; how animated and fpirited are the variegated characters of the peafantry that compofe this large ajfemb/age, the whole faene evidently taken from nature : moft lively and cor red has he pourtrayed bim- felf with his family , and fame of the principal villag ers on the fore ground : the whole exhibits that clearnefa and filvery tone fo truly harmonious and fafeinating in bis finefa works, one of the MOST capital pictures known of Teniers. H t 3 / 5 - ic . 4-X^ &3CL l* LOT ( 34 ) N. Bcrghcm Wouvermans N. Pouffin Sir JoJhua Reynolds N. Pouffin 94 95 96 A Landscape, with a diftant View of a Ertcgh, and a plealing and extenfive Country, diverfified and enlivened with various Groups of Cattle and Figures; touched and finifixd in the fincjl file of this inefiimable mafier , with a rich warm glowing Jky, harmonizing the whole with beautiful ejfeB. From the cabinet of Monf. H Arveley* Ee JueDe La Bague. This Pleasing, Beautiful and in- tcrcfing Cabinet P ictwre brings to our view the antient do- me flic fports in the Villages of Holland. The peculiar cbaraBcrs of the natives as well as the horfes are mof accurately drawn , the whole finijlred with precifon and fwcct fiozving pencil, the true tefi of hisfinefi works. This Chef D’Ouvre is from the cabinet of Monf . D’ Arveley. A Bacchanalian Dance. This prodigy of art treated all fubjeBs, either facred or profane, with equal fucccfs, by the powers of his fuperior genius. The females exhibits perfe A. models of un- tutored beauty, the lovely infant bacchants eagerly firugglingfor the juice of the grape, conirafied with the vigorous rufticity of the Satyrs , are truly piBurefquc and poetically imagined. Its evident Poujfin defgned this pi Slur e to imitate the file and tafe of the antique paintings, with much greater perfection of colouring, draw - irtg and executions , than any f ample s we have extant of thefe works. Out of the collection of Monf. Le Compte Vaudruil and was pub - iicly fold in Paris for 900 Louis ct ors. JZo, it 97 Mrs. Siddons in the Charafter of the Tragic Muse. S The majefiic dignity ' in which he has placed this tragical heroine of the fage is admirably conceived, full of exprejfon and con- templative energy, a character powerful,yet retaining the delicacy and beauty of refemblance, the attendant attributes poetically and well fancied. This piBure alone would be fufficient to hand to pofterity the name of the firfi' rate native genius that has adorned this country , had we no other proof of his great and exquifte merit M. De CaloNNE paid Sir JoJhua Reynolds 800 guineas for it, and thought the merit of this piBure far exceeded any fixed fum. 98 A Noble Landscape. The works of N. PouJJln are every day more, in requefi, the longer confidered, the more be grows on the tafie he thought , with as much genius and mafterly fancy as our greatefi poets ; with this imaginary fubjeB of Orion, he has endeavoured to aftonijb us. The imagination of this fubjeB has novelty, the whole truly fine, M, De CaloNNE paid Sir JoJhua Reynolds 500 gui- neas for it. 33 ( fi ^ Corregio 702 Rubens & 1 05 Breughel k Potter 104 ( 35 ) The Gipsey Girl with Flowers. This piBure is allowed the majlcr piece of Morillio s works , for defegn , compofition and co- louring, though it is only a fugle figure ; not one of his larger works approaches fo nearly to univerfal excellence, or canboafi of fo corrcB a refemhlance of truth and nature . It voas formerly in the cabinet of Motif Bofftt and publicly fold for 900 Louis d'ors. The Holy F am; 1. Y. That this great genius formed his mind on nob'left models of the Italian and other fchools is evident, for we find fome of his works imitative of Titian, Rubens, Van Dyck, &c. This fublime and elegant compofed pi Bure is quite his own , full of tafie and fpirited execution, with a powerful effeB and rich- nefs of colouring, a jewel of the firfi claj's. A Sea Port. The grandeur and fublimity with which Sal. Rofa has treated thefe fubjeBs ; will ftand the tefi of admiring ages', the feene appears part of his native romantic country j or where he moftly refided, Calabria ; the whole painted with wonderful fpirit and facility, the figures very applicable and piBureJque, fuited to the feene which renders it ineftimable . Sr. Sebastian. No artiJTs works are in morerequefi and none fo fcarce as Corregio’s ; this undoubted and well authenticated pic- ture is evidently' a finifloed model for a large pi Bure, the charaBer of the Dying Saint very expreffively painted with a delicate and flowing pencil. Christ with Martha and Mary. This capital performance , the joint labour of two great artifis, though different in file, de- monftrates their, great judgment. The figures are difpofed of with a propriety fuited to their refpeBive charaBers ; the graceful dignity and noble eafe of Our Saviour is pre-eminent , the whole finiflxd with great accuracy. When we confider hoiv rare cabinet piBures are of this defeription they become invaluable. A Group of Cattle. Poffibly no piBure can be more defierving to authenticate the reputation of this imcomparable and fcarce mafier , he unites boldnefs and ejfeB with delicate accuracy of drawing, the animals appear not like painting . , but the real objcBs. This artift in Holland, is efieemed the father of the animal painters. It was formerly in the cabinet of Monf. Braam-Camp, of Amfierdani FINIS . 5 35 ^ ip ^ 3^i? - 1 2 - 31 $ /o