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 (1908)
Smith, John, dealer in pictures · London : Sands · leaf 254
5. A country inn, by a road-side, at which a man, in acart drawn by a gray horse, has stopped to bait; a trough ofprovender is placed before the beast, and the driver, with aglass in one hand and a jug in the other, is seated on a caskin the cart; at the side of the house are two men and awoman,… … ISAAC VAN OSTADE. 197 front are two boys, pushing along a sledge, in which 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)…