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 ground, to right, St. Joseph leading the ass from a stable; above, three angels singing from a scroll. Painted about 1503-6. Engraved by S. Martelli.—Gal. du Pal. Pitti, i. Pl. 1.; C. & C., Italy, iii. 486; Meyer, Künst. Lex., 219.

Holy Family, Federigo Baroccio, National Gallery, London.

By Federigo Baroccio, National Gallery, London; canvas, H. 3 ft. 9 in. × 3 ft. The Virgin, seated in an apartment, with Jesus in her lap, clasps with her right arm St. John, who holds up a bird in his hand to protect it from a cat, watching it from left-*hand corner; behind, at right, St. Joseph. Sometimes called Madonna del Gatto (of the Cat). Painted for Count Antonio Brancaleoni; belonged to Cesarei family of Perugia, and later (1805) to Buchanan and to Rev. W. H. Carr, who bequeathed it in 1831 to the National Gallery. Several old copies. Engraved by C. Cort (1577); A. Cardon; J. F. Leybold.

By Fra Bartolommeo, Palazzo Corsini, Rome; wood, H. 4 ft. 6 in. × 2 ft. 2 in.; signed, dated 1516. The Virgin, seated in a flowery meadow, holds Jesus, who struggles to cast his arms round the little Baptist's neck; St. Joseph looks on, smiling. A likeness between the Virgin and Raphael's portrait of Maddalena Doni in the Pitti warrants the assumption that this is the picture which Vasari says was painted for Agnolo Doni. Copy in Musée Fabre, Montpellier.—Vasari, ed. Mil., iv. 183; C. & C., Italy, iii. 468.

By Fra Bartolommeo, Panshanger House, England; wood, H. 3 ft. 5 in. × 4 ft. 3 in. The Virgin seated, holding Jesus, who is taking the reed cross from the infant St. John standing at right; at left, St. Joseph seated, smiling; background, a beautiful landscape with a bright horizon and a palm-*tree. Painted about 1509, probably for Filippo Salviati. "The colouring," says Waagen, who considers this the finest picture of the artist, "is of extraordinary warmth and depth."—C. & C., Italy, iv. 449; Waagen, Treasures, iii. 10.

Holy Family, Fra Bartolommeo, Panshanger House, England.

By Fra Bartolommeo, Palazzo Pitti, Florence; wood, H. 3 ft. 2 in. × 3 ft. The Virgin, seated, holds Jesus, who embraces the infant Baptist kneeling; behind, SS. Elizabeth and Joseph; background, a green curtain. An inverted replica, with changes, of the Holy Family of the Palazzo Corsini.