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
John Smith's catalogue raisonn\u00e9 of Dutch, Flemish, and French painters, reissued in London by Sands in 1908, lists attributions, sale prices, and collection locations for connoisseurs, dealers, and collectors. The plates are halftone reproductions of seventeenth-century genre paintings\u2014lute players, harpsichord duets, a woman scaling fish\u2014offering deep-shadowed interiors, patterned table carpets, costume detail, and figures lit from a single window.
