Excerpt from A Catalogue of a Most Superb and Distinguished Collection of Italian, French, Flemish, and Dutch Pictures: A Selection Formed With Peculiar Taste and Judgment by John Trumbull, Esq. During His Late Residence in Paris, From Some of the Most Celebrated Cabinets in France HE Capual and Valuable Celleél-ion of Piélures which is here prefented to the Public, is the Fruit of a confiderable refidence, and the laborious reiearch of a perfon who had the means of accefs to the livery filhe'f'c remaimng colle8tions in France; and whofe judgment enabled _hir-i1, rin a F1ngular degree, to avail himfelf of thofe means. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.