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 Englishman came there, who thought a large sum of money well employed in the purchase of it.

St. John in the Wilderness, said to be at Paris. In Lett. Pitt. vol. ii. p., mention is made of a print of St. John the Baptist, half length, by Sig. Jabac, who had the original picture, which was formerly in the King of France’s cabinet.

Joseph and Potiphar’s wife, which Mons. de Charmois, secretary to the Duke of Schomberg, had.

A portrait of Raphael, in oil, in the Medici gallery. This is mentioned in Vasari, p. ; and though not expressly there said to be by Leonardo, is so placed as to make it doubtful whether it was or not.

A Nun, half length, by Leonardo, in the possession of Abbate Nicolini.

Two fine heads, painted in oil by Leonardo, bought at Florence by Sig. Bali di Breteuil, ambassador from Malta to Rome. One of these, representing a woman, was in his first manner. The other, a Virgin, in his last.

A Leda, which Lomazzo says was at Fontainebleau, and did not yield in colouring to the portrait of Joconda in the Duke’s gallery. Richardson says it was in the palace Mattei.

The head of a dead man, with all its minute parts, painted by Leonardo, formerly in the Mattei palace, but no longer there. Rh