Excerpt from A Catalogue Raisonné of the Works of the Most Eminent Dutch, Flemish, and French Painters, Vol. 4: 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<br><br>In addition to the valuable enlargement of the work from this permission, will be given the accumulated information of the past year, derived from attendance at public sales, and from private researches in England, and on the continent.<br><br>A desire for the preservation of works of art, compel the Writer to use every means in his power to prevent the ravages, which the mania for cleaning, and what is called restoring, is making among fine pictures.<br><br>Although this subject has been noticed in the general Introduction to the work, he thinks that it cannot be too often repeated nor can possessors of fine pictures be too fully impressed with the necessity of preserving them from injury, if they have a regard for the art, and really estimate what they possess.<br><br>About the Publisher<br><br>Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com<br><br>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.