Page:Hofstede de Groot catalogue raisonné, Volume 2, 1909.djvu/699

 A CATALOGUE RAISONNE OF THE WORKS OF THE MOST EMINENT DUTCH PAINTERS OF THE SEVENTEENTH CENTURY BASED ON THE WORK OF JOHN SMITH BY C. HOFSTEDE DE GROOT [WITH THE ASSISTANCE OF DR. W. R. VALENTINERJ TRANSLATED AND EDITED BY EDWARD G. HAWKE In Ten Volumes. Super Royal Svo. Vol. I. Jan Steen, Gabriel Metsu, Gerard Dou, Pieter de Hooch, Carel Fabritius, Johannes Vermeer. 253. net. SOME PRESS OPINIONS ON VOL. I. ATffENALUM. "In each case we are given a short biography, a few essential facts relating to pupils and imitators, a classified summary of the pictures of each artist, as well as a lengthy catalogue ratsonne, together with a similar summary of the different subjects dealt with and a chronological index of dated pictures. To these is appended a comparative table to enable the reader to identify in this Catalogue the pictures enumerated in the original ' Smith ' and the ' Supplement. ' . . . The critical scholarship of Dr. De Groot and the wealth of research lavished on the work by his assistants will render this publication precious for a long time to come." TIMES. " In this first volume Dr. De Groot offers us a rich feast of curiosity in his lists of works by Steen, Metsu, Dou, P. de Hooch, C. Fabritius, and J. Vermeer to each of which is prefixed a brief biography, with the latest and most accurate information." SA TURD A Y RE VIEW." The complete work will prove quite invaluable to students and to collectors. . . . The condensed biographies of the artists contain information which we do not think is available to English readers anywhere else." DAILY NEWS. "Most cordially we welcome its appearance, and congratulate all concerned not least Mr. Hawke, who has greatly enhanced the value of the English edition by his amplifications and corrections, and by the exhaustive index of present and past owners on the admirable first volume. At once the work takes its place as a classic. . . . The biographies lucid, concise, authoritative embody the results of the most recent researches, the descriptions are terse and to the point, making identification as easy as may be through the agency of words. Instead of the haphazard lists of Smith, pictures are satisfactorily classified into subject groups, and chronological indices of dated works are added."