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 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 pictures. Works: Annunciation to the Shepherd, Portrait of a Young Girl (1641), Louvre; Female portrait (1640), Brussels Museum; Loving Couple (attributed), Antwerp Museum; Isaac blessing Jacob (1638), Fête of the Civic Guard (1648), National Museum, Amsterdam; Marcus Curius Dentatus, Solomon praying for Wisdom, Royal Palace, ib.; The Archers (1642), City Hall, ib.; Portrait of a Man and his Sister (1646), Rotterdam Museum; Solomon and Queen of Sheba (with Dirk van Delen), Lille Museum; Female portrait (1636), Brunswick Museum; do., Städel Gallery, Frankfort; Woman and Child, Darmstadt Museum; Guard Room, Old Pinakothek Munich; 3 male portraits (two dated 1639, 1643), David and Uriah, Dresden Gallery; Female portrait (1641), Expulsion of Hagar, Berlin Museum; 2 portraits, Copenhagen Gallery; 3 portraits (one dated 1637), Hermitage, St. Petersburg; Portrait of Old Man (1651), Vienna Museum; Portrait of a Lady (1648), Marquis of Bute, London; Bathsheba's Appeal to David, National Gallery, Dublin.—Allgem. d. Biogr., vii. 122; Ch. Blanc, École hollandaise; Havard, A. & A. hol., ii. 73; Repertorium f. K., iv. 108; Riegel, Beiträge, ii. 269; 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, who also owned the Ariosto of Cobham Hall; first exhibited in Florence in 1793, when taken from the Duke's Guardaroba.—C. & C., Titian, i. 270; Lavice, 53.

Flora, Titian, Uffizi, Florence.

FLORA, TRIUMPH OF, Nicolas Poussin, Louvre, Paris; canvas, H. 5 ft. 5 in. × 7 ft. 11 in. At right, Flora, seated upon a chariot, drawn by two loves or zephyrs, and preceded by women and men singing and dancing, 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 1630 for Cardinal Omodei, whence passed to collection of Louis XIV. Engraved by E. Fessard (1770), Audran, Marie Horthemels.—Filhol, iii. Pl. 199; Villot, Cat. Louvre.

FLORE. See Fiore.