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ITALIAN; FRENCH, FLEMISH, & DUTCH

PICTURETHE REAL PROPERTY OF

A MAN OF FASHION,DISTINGUISHED FOR HIS SUPERIOR TASTE, AND PURCHASED ATA VERY LIBERAL EXPENCE, DURING HIS RESIDENCE ABROADi

Gompriling the undoubted Works of the following great and admired Matters,

in the higheft State of Prefervation :

Raphael^ Guidot

Corregioy GuercinOy

D: da Volterray C, Cignaniy

Primaticcioy

TintorettOy.,

Carracci,

Rubensy

V: DyckyTeniersy

L: Giordano, . P. Neefs,

N: Poujfin, Berghem,

P: . Panini, Wouvermans,

A: Cityp',

A: de Velde,

Ruyjdael,

OJlade,

Backhuy/en^

V: Goyen,

WILL BE SOLD BY AUCTION,.

Mr. CHRISTIE^At his Great Roomy Pall Mall,

On Friday, March 6, 1801 ,. and following Day,^

AT^ TWELVE O’CLOCK.

To be Viewed, and Catalogues had at the Rainbow Coffee Houfe, Cornhill, and in

Pal] Mall,

CONDITIONS OF SALE

higheft Bidder to be the Buyer ; and if any Difpute arife between Two or ifforc

Bidders, the Lot fo difputed lhall be put up again and re-fcld.

41. No Perfon to advance lefe than is. Above Five Pounds zs. 6d. And fo on in pro-

portion.

‘III. The Purchafers to give in their Names and Places of Abode, if required, and to

pay down zol. per Cent, in Part of Payment of the Purchafe Money; in Default

of which, the Lot or Lots fo purchafed, to be immediately put up again, and re-fold.

IV. The Lots to be taken away at the Expence of the Purchafers, within One Day after the

Sale.

V. To prevent Inconveniences that frequently attend long and open Accounts, the Remain-

der of the Purchafe Money to be abfolutely paid on or before the Delivery,

VI. Upon Failure of complying with the above Conditions, the Money depofited in Part

of Payn)ent fliall be forfeited ; all Lots uncleared within the Time aforefaid, fiiail

be re-fold by Public or Private Sale ; and the Deficiency (if any) attending fuch

Re-fale, foall be made good by the Defaulters at this Sale.

A Catalogue, &c.

Fir ft Day^s Sale,

FRIDAY, MARCH the 6th, i8oi.

Pi£iures»

Bredael —

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1 xA Landfcape with Figures going out a-Hawking.

Van Goyen — 2 A Viev/ on a River

Canaletti —3 A Pair of Views in Venice

A/Telyn ,— 4 A fiTiall Landfcape and Figures

Claude — 5 A Landfcape and Figures, Rile of

Pellegrini — 6 The Daughter of Jethro

Ditto 7 The Difcovery of Achilles

S. Ruyfdael — 8 A Landfcape

V. Dyck — 9 A Sketch of King Charles on Horfeback

Rubens —- 10 Hunting, a Sketch

Viviani — II Architecture, Moon-light

Schalken — 12 St. Peter denying Chrill, Candle-light

Vernet — 13 A Sea-Port, Sun-rife, a pleafing Sketch;

Boucher —

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14 A Lady with a Cat

Parmigiano — 15 A Holy Family with Saints

Paolo Mattel 16 Danae

Rubens — 17 The AlTumption of the Virgin

Van Uden esaev r-8 A Landfcape with Haymakers'

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Ganaletti^

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E 9 ArcEitedfure

Le Moine — 20 Mercury and Argus

Zorgh — 21 An Interior, with Boors fmoaking

'Fabris — 22 An Italian Sea^Port, with Banditti

Fr: Guardi ~ 23 A View on the Grand Lake at Venice

Zuccarelli — 24 A pair of fmall elegant Landfcapes

Schalken — 25 Students drawing by a Lampr Lingelback — 26 -Italian Peafants

Cuyp — 27 Cows in a Landfcapc

P. Neefs — 28 A Church Piece

Jan Steen — 29 A Smoker

J. Mi el 30 Italian Peafants re.pofing

Sir Jolhua Reynolds 31 Count Ugolino, a Sketch for the large Pidlure of the

fame Subjedl

_V. Dyck ' — 32 “Portrait of G Grayer

Rembrandt — 33 An Old Man’s Head-

J. Ruyfdael — 34 A Sea Piece

A. Kauffman —

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3'5 Hellen, a ^Portrait

Solimeni 36 The Affuraption of the Virgin, a grand and fpiritcd

Defign for a large Pidlure

Berghem 37 A Landfcape and Cattle

P. Panini 38 Architedlure and Ruins 1

Breughel '39 A fmall Landfcape

J.-Miel 40 Italian Peafants'

Ditto — 41 Ditto, its companion

N. Pouffin — 42 A Sketch of Daphne and Apollo

Sirani — 43 A Cupid

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Lingelback — 44 Banditti plundering a Village

Schlingeland •— 45 A Dutch Philofopher

2 hVander Neer —

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46 A Landfcape with a Drawbridge

Zuccarelli 47 An Italian Landfcape, an elegant Scene

n Simon di Pefaro — 48 Chrift and St. John, a,plcafing Cabinet Pidture, m* fine Prcfervation

% P. Brill — 49 A.Repofo, highly finifhed and coloured, the Figures

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Guercino

Wynants

Raphael

D. da Voltera

Teniers

by Ad: Elflieimer

50 A Child refufmg to drink a Medical Draught

51 A Pair of fmall brilliant Landfcapes

52 St. Cecilia, a very curious cabinet Picture

53 Virgin and Child

54 A Martyrdom, a very uncommon and fingularly fine

Effort of this Mafter in the Hiftorical Line

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S.uyfdael — 55

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A View in Holland near Harlaem

2$ •Pouflin — 56 Pafiphae, a very fine Pidlure of this Mafter

Moucheron - 57 A Landfcape, View near Rome

l b 'h Mola — S8 The Meeting of Jacob and Rachel, a very fine and

33 Oftade —59

Engraved Piflure from the Crozat Colledlion

An Interior, with Boers drinking and ffnoaking> a

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Berghem — 60

beautiful and high-finifhed Cabinet Pi(fture

A fmall Landfcape and Figures

Van Dyck — 61 Cupid with the arms of-Mars

Berghem — 62 A Landfcape with Robbers, in a grand Style, and

4/ Stella — 63

finely preferved

A 'Holy Family

W '/*-Nich. Loir - 64 A Ditto

Thefe Two charming Pibiures werefrom the Cabinet of Due de Prafin.

77

V,

57

Tenters —

Ruyfdael —

Van de Velde —

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J. Both ~Carracci — »

Teniers

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'66

67

68

69

70

Blobbima - 73

Jdd Lud. Carracci ~ 74

Guercino

76

The Four Seafons, painted in the very beft Style of

this efteemed Mafter

A Landfcape, a woody Scene, the Figures by Wob-vermans

A Calm, with Dutch Boats

An Italian Fair, a-' warm glowing Scene

Holy Family teaching the Infant Chrift to read

A Dutch Wake with numerous Figures, executed

with a Delicacy and Facility of Pencil peculiar to

this Mafter

The Companion, equally fine

View of the Great Church at Antwerp, certainly one

of the fineft Pi£lures of this Mafter, and in perfedl

Prefervation

A View in Holland from Nature ; The Works of this

captivating Artift are juftly held in the greateft Efti-

mation

Chrift crowned with Thorns—an exquifite Cabinet

Pifture, full of Expreffion, and in the fineft Pre-

fervation

The Virgin and Infant Chrift, St. John and St. Bar-

tholomew, an admirable Produition of this great

Mafter

Portrait of the Senator Gritti/Ok P. Vcronefe

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P. Panini

Ditto

Van Helmont

N. Pouffin

Claude

V. Dyck

Tintoretto

If: Oilade

L« Giordano

Ditto.

Solario

Ruyfdael

Pouffin

77 A Grand Scene, In which are reprefented the CoToifeOy

the Temple of Jupiter Stator, and other remains of

Antiquity at Rome

78 The companion, extremely fine. This capital Pair

of Pictures are engraved

79 View of a Flemifh Market, with numerous Figures,

Still Life, &c, a very interefting and highly-finiflied-

Pidlure

§0 The Birth of Bacchus, with Groupes of attendant

Nymphs t a truly elegant and claffical Compofition

Si An Italian Sea Port, with Buildings and Figures, by

Sun-fet, painted with warm, glowing Effedl

82 A Defcent from the Crofs : nothing can exceed the

Beauty and richnefs of Colouring, in this truly

capital Pi6ture, which was brought from a Church

in Flanders

83 The Raifing of Lazarus, a grand Compofition of

many Figures; the Heads full of Charadter, and

the Whole finely coloured

84 A Winter Piece, with a Number of Figures Ikaiting,

&c. very Capital

§5 Meleager and Atlanta, a moft fpirked Performance,

and truly Capital—from the Colltdlion of MonL^

de Calone *•

86 Niobe, the companion, of equal Merit with the

preceding

87 The Virgin and Child, full of Sweetnefs and Expreffions

88 A mofl: Capital Landfcape, with Figures and Horfes

by Phil: Wouvermans : The grandeft Scene, and:

the moft confiderable Work known of this admira-

ble Painter

89 THESEUS LIFTING THE STONE, a' moft

CAPITAL Picture, ornamented- with noble Arch-

itedlure; and painted in the beft Time of this

SUBLIME Artist

End of the Firll Day*s Sale,

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Second Day's Sale,

SATURDAY, M A R C the..

7th, 1801.;

Fidiures,

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23

Morland 1 Sea-Shore, Viev/ in the Jlle of Wigl|(t, withl

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Fragonard — 2 A Sultana

Borgognione — 3 A Battle Piece

Ditto 4 Ditto, the companion

Brooking — 5 A Sea Piece V

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Sir F. Bourgeois — 6 A Land Storm

Alhford —7 A View in the County of Wicklow *

Gobbo Carracci 8 A Pair, a View on a River, and a Landfcape'

GaufFredt —

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9 A fmall Landfcape

Breemberg — 10 A Ditto

Hori/onti — II An elegant Italian Landfcape, with Buildings' and

Figures ' -*

Ditto 12 A Ditto, the companion ^Moucheron — 13 A Landfcape, the Figures by A. V. de V,^le

Patelle 14 An Italian Landfcape, with Buildings and' Figures

Ditto — 15 A Ditto, the companion

M. Ricci and V. Dicft 16 Two Landfcapes and Figtires ^ ‘

Ghifolfi — 17 Ruins of a Roman Gate, Sec.

Domenichino — t8 A Landfcape with a Magdalen

P: il Vecchio 19 Soldiers at Cards •

Wootton — 20 A large Landfcape, the Figures by Hogarth

Lanfranco — 21 St. Matthew

Ditto — 22 The companion

Locatelli 23 A View in Italy

Both — 24 A Landfeape, a mountainous View, and Figures

EHheimer — 25 A fmall circular Landfcape, on Copper

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Z'uccaBo- - 26 Portrait of Gabriel D' Etrces

Rubens -— 27 Part of the Hiftory of Henri IV. the Sketch for'cn®-

o£ the Hannds ofthe Luxcmbourgh

Ditto — 28 A ditto

Hauflhsan 29 A fmall rich coloured Laiidfcape

Both — SC- A warm Landfcape with a Lime Kiln and Figures

Begyn — SI Cattle and Figures in a Landfcape

V. Dyck — 32 A Portrait of Philip Rubens, Son of Sir P. P. Rubens

Van jGoyen —

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33 A View of the Town of Dordrecht.

Vander Mfeulen- —

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34 A Battle Piece, very finely coloured

Palamedes — 35 A Family Scene, very highly finilhed

Mantuan® — 3^ Apollo Dancing with the Mufes, a Copy of the cele-

brated- PiQ^ure-of Julio Romano in the Palazzo Pitts-

at Florence

Canalettl: —37 A Pair of- Views in Venice

Locatelli — 38 A Landfcape with Figures, extremely fine

Guido —

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39 Infant Saviour flceping on the Crofs, very- fweetljr

coloured^

Jean Miel ~ 40 A Monk diftributing Bread and Soup to the Poor^,

very fine

Francefchini — 41 A Magdalen, a fine Specimen of this Mafi&r

p. Lievens 42. An old Man’s Head, very fine

F. Hals 43 A' Boy’s Head, fuRof Spirit andAnimation >

Guercino 44 St. Jerome

Ruyfdael — 45 A woody Scene with a Waterfall

Vernet- —

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46, Ruins, an elegant Scene wiith Figures-

Ditto —

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47 An Italian Landfcape with Figures, the Companion;Teniers » 48. Af Landfcape with Pigs

Rubens — 49 His own Wife, a fine Sketch

Ditto- — 50 Shepherds dancing, richly colored

Santerre ~ 5^ A Lady in a Spanifli Drefs,- holding a -Mafk-

CoCignani —5.2 Jupiter and Antiope, from the known Pi(£lure-of Cot-

regio,—when copies are made by fuch Great Maf*--

ters as G. Cignani they. become Originals-

G. Pouflin — 53 A grand kalian Landfcape,. with Figures

Corregio -=- 54 A fleeping Venus, finely colored

Haphaei «— 55 Portrait of St. Ivo the Advocate of the Poor,.m fine>

prefervation

J. Steen

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56 The Village Magiflrate, a humorous SHbje£I

Romani el li •=— 57 Virgin, Chrift and St. John playing with a Goldfinclv,

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Lingclbafck 58

Jlifbens 59

77, P, Neefs ' * 60

Wynants — 61

Oftade 6 z

V. de Velde — 63

JUDe Hoog — 64

3/Pritnaticcio 65

Tintoretto«

— 66

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Teniers

Rubens

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67

68

A: Ollade •— 69

Cuyp 70

TfO Teniers — 71

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Teniers —w 72

73

Murillo 74

Italian Peafailts merrymaking

A Descent from tke Crofs-^-a very fipiritetl and fiite

Sketcih for tKe celtbrated Pidfure painted ior the

Great Church at Antwerp

A Church Piece, highly hniflied ‘

A Landfcape, a brilliant little Cabinet Jevvel

An Interior, with Peafants dancing

Ships Frozen-in at Sea, an uncommon and exquifite

Cabinet Pifture

A DomeOic Scene, very richly coloured, and the*

lights managed with brilliant and furprifing ElFedl

A Lady claiming Juftice from an Emperor, and holding

to him the Skull of her Hulband, unjyl^ly con-

demned., Few Cabinet Pifturcs of this Mafler are

to be met with - c

The Golden Calf. This is the fmall Piflure which

this Mafter afterwards executed on a large Scale,

for the Church of S. Maria del Orto, at Venice.

It was brought to Paris by a French AmbalTador,

in wJiofe Family it remained ’till the Revolution

An Interior, with Peafants hawking, highly finilhed

A Subj'e£l from the Life of Achilles~a capital Sketch

A Woman cleaning Fifli, an aftonilliing high-finifhed

and well preferved Piclure of this celebrated Mailer

A View of Dort, with Figures, a beautiful warm and

glowiug fcene, very capital

The Temptation of St. Anthony, a very fpiritcdand

high-finifhed A/arm/tt, in high prefervation

Dutch Peafants dancing, truly a capital Pifttire

Job upon his Dunghill : This extraordinary piflure

is painted in a particular Stile, which Teniers

fometimes employed, the colouring has fomething

of the Venetian School.

An Alfumption of the Virgin, an enchanting Cabinet

Jewel

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Rubens —75 The Battle between Conflantine and Maxeatius

Ditto — 76 Condantine receiving the Globe and Crofs

Ditto — 77 Ditto worlhiping the Crofs

Ditto — 78 Ditto receiving the Banner0Ditto — 79 Fame crowning Condantrne

’Theje five Sketches form a Part of the admirable Suite of Dejigns from the Hand

of this Great Mafer^ intendedfor a Gallery at Paris, and were a difiinguiftoed Part of the

Orleans Flemish Collection.

lido N. Pouflin — 80 Apollo and Daphne r Avery fine Morceau, from the

//s-Colleflion of Sir Gregory Page

Teniers — 81 The Farm Yard: A moft capital' produdlron of' this

great and efteemed Mafter, painted in a fweet filver

tone. Engraved by Le Bafan

.^3 A Landfcape with Ruins and Figures, painted with

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great firmnefs of touch-;and every part illumined-

^ with a warm glowing fun-Aine, which produces a-

mofl: lively and fparkling elFed, truly a brilliant

Tenieis- ' — ‘83

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Twelfth Night: A groupe of Figures in an Interior,;

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full of Chara£ler, and painted with unufual fpirit,

undoubtedly one of his moft pleafing and exquifitely

TAPfinilhed Works

Berghem — 84 A beautifull Italian Landfcape, with Buildings and a

Variety of Figures and Cattle, efteemed one of the-

moft capital pictures known of this much admired

mafter

N. Poullrn 85 The Holy Family, a capital and claftical compofition.

well known by the Print engraved' by Poilly; from-

the choice Colle6lion of M. de la Regniere

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