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 Philippe giving two Gobelins Tapestries to Queen Victoria (1846); Happy Mother, Unhappy Mother, Little Poachers, Spanish Smugglers, Little Fishermen, Death of St. Paul, Fisherman's Family, River Scamander (1850); Scene of Pillage (1852).—Bellier, i. 832; Ch. Blanc, École française; Lenormant, Beaux-Arts, i. 233; Meyer, Gesch., 435; Nouv. biog. générale, xxvi. 786.

JOHN, ST., THE ALMSGIVER, Titian, S. Giovanni Elemosinario, Venice; canvas, figures life-size. St. John, bishop and patriarch of Alexandria, seated on a raised podium, gives alms to a beggar at the foot of the steps. Painted in 1533 in rivalry with Pordenone, according to Vasari. One of the finest works of the master's middle time (C. & C.).—Vasari, ed. Mil., vii. 441; C. & C., Titian, i. 379.

JOHN BAPTIST, ST., Guercino, Capitol Gallery, Rome. Half-figure of the Saint, with one hand resting on his breast and his eyes raised to heaven. Fine head.—Lavice, 331.

By Murillo, Madrid Museum; canvas, H. 4 ft. × 3 ft. 3 in. St. John, about seven years old, wearing a red tunic and sheepskin robe, seated beside a large rock, looking towards a ray of light descending from heaven; his right hand is on his breast, his left holding a cross and a scroll, inscribed "Agnus Dei;" background, rocks and trees. Collection of Marqués de la Ensenada. Etched by B. Maura; lithographed by Camaron, A. Lemoine, Lafosse, A. de Belvedere, L. Maurin. Repetitions: Heytesbury House, Wiltshire; Western Wood, North Cray, Kent; G. Delahante, Paris.—Curtis, 245; Lübke; Madrazo, 473.

By Murillo, Seville Museum; canvas, H. 7 ft. 4 in. × 4 ft. 1 in. The Saint, about thirty years old, partly clothed, standing front, with joined hands, leaning against a large rock; a cross rests on his left arm; a lamb stands beside him on his left. Painted about 1676 for high altar of church of Capuchin Convent, Seville. Companion to St. Joseph and Infant Jesus (Seville Museum).—Curtis, 249.

By Andrea del Sarto, Palazzo Pitti, Florence; wood, H. 3 ft. × 2 ft. 2 in. Half-length, nude, with a skin about the loins; background, a rock; reed cross in foreground. One of two mentioned by Vasari, who says that Andrea painted a St. John for Giovanni Maria Benintendi, who gave it to Duke Cosimo, and also a St. John which he intended to send as a propitiatory offering to Francis I., but afterwards sold it to Ottaviano de' Medici.—Vasari, ed. Mil., v. 36.

St. John Baptist, Leonardo da Vinci, Louvre.

By Leonardo da Vinci, Louvre; wood, H. 2 ft. 3 in. × 1 ft. 10 in. Half-length, with lamb-skin about the loins; holds a cross in left hand and points to heaven with right. In collection of Francis I.; presented by Louis XIII. to Charles I. of England, who sent him in return a portrait of Erasmus by Holbein and a Holy Family by Titian; bought, after death of Charles, for £140 by banker Jabach, who sold it to Louis XIV. Copy in the Ambrosiana, Milan, attributed to Salai. Engraved by Boulanger.—Vasari, ed. Mil., iv. 58; Villot, Cat. Louvre; Cab. de l'Amateur, iii. 31; Rigollot, Hist. des