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 FLORA chiaroscuro effects, and lost ground. He enjoyed the favour of the Elector William of Brandenburg, and of Prince Maurice of Nassau, for whom he executed many pict- ures. Works : Annunciation to the Shep- herd, Portrait of a Young Girl (1G41), Louvre ; Female portrait (1040), Brussels Museum ; Loving Couple (attributed), Ant- werp Museum ; Isaac blessing Jacob (1G38), Frte of the Civic Guard (1048), National Museum, Amsterdam ; Marcus Curius Den- tatus, Solomon praying for Wisdom, Royal Palace, ib. ; The Archers (1042), City Hall, ib. ; Portrait of a Man and his Sister (1G4G), Rotterdam Museum ; Solomon and Queen of Sheba (with Dirk van Delen), Lille Mu- seum ; Female portrait (1030), Brunswick Museum ; do., Stiidel Gallery, Frankfort ; Woman and Child, Darmstadt Museum ; Guard Room, Old Pinakothek Munich; 3 male portraits (two dated 1G39, 1G43), David and Uriah, Dresden Gallery ; Female por- trait (1641), Expulsion of Hagar, Berlin Mu- seum ; 2 portraits, Copenhagen Gallery ; 3 portraits (one dated 1G37), Hermitage, St. Petersburg ; Portrait of Old Man (1051), Vienna Museum ; Portrait, of a Lady (1G48), Marquis of Bute, London ; Bath- sheba's Appeal to David, National Gallery, Dublin. Allgom. d. Biogr., vii. 122 ; Ch. Blanc, Ecole hollandaise ; Havard, A. <fc A. hoi., ii. 73 ; Repertorium f. K., iv. 108 ; Riegel, Beitriige, ii. 2G9 ; Zeitschr. f. b. K., x. 224, 381. FLORA. See Columbine. FLORA, Titian, Uffizi, Florence ; canvas, life-size figure, seen to hip. A woman, lightly clad, her hair looped with a silken cord and falling in waves to the bosom, strives with one hand to hold the muslin falling from her shoulders while presenting roses, jessamines, and violets with the other to some unseen person. Painted about 1520. Once owned by Don Alfonzo Lopez, Flora, Titian, Uffizi, Florence. who also owned the Ariosto of Cobham Hall ; first exhibited in Florence in 1793, when taken from the Duke's Guardaroba. C'. A C., Titian, i. 270 ; Lavice, 53. FLORA, TRIUMPH OF, Nicolas Pou^in, Louvre, Paris ; canvas, H. 5 ft. 5 in. X 7 ft, 11 in. At right, Flora, seated upon a char- iot, drawn by two loves or zephyrs, and pre- ceded by women and men singing and danc- ing, is accompanied by nymphs, youths, and loves bearing flowers ; two loves, flying, are [ about to crown her ; a warrior, standing, offers flowers in a buckler. Painted about 1G30 for Cardinal Omodei, whence passed to collection of Louis XPV. Engraved by E. Fessard (1770), Audran, Marie Horthemels. Filhol, iii. PI. 199 ; Villot, Cat. Louvre. FLORE. See Fiore.