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 went to Rome; after his return also painted genre scenes. L. of Honour, 1832. Works: Anacreon and Cupid; Ecce Homo (1819); Christ healing a Young Man Possessed (1827), Louvre; Calling of St. Fronto (1831), Ministry of Public Works; Good Samaritan (1835), Préfecture de la Seine; Funeral of William the Conqueror (1855).—Larousse.

FORMANN, HELENA, Rubens, Blenheim Palace; canvas, H. 6 ft. 6 in. × 4 ft. 6 in. Rubens' second wife, full-length, in a black silk dress, with white satin sleeves adorned with pearls, and a black velvet cap, walking in the open air, followed by a page with his hat in his hand. Engraved by Earlom. Other portraits of her by Rubens at Windsor Castle, and in Dresden, Munich, Berlin (St. Cecilia), Vienna, The Hague, Louvre, and Hermitage Galleries.—Waagen, Art Treasures, iii. 126; Smith, ii. 242.

FORNARINA, LA, Sebastian del Piombo, Blenheim, England; wood, life-size. A beautiful woman sitting, turned to left, her head almost facing the spectator; her hair, bound in a mass at the back of the neck, set off by a striped cloth tied over the crown of the head; low white dress showing neck; right hand supporting the fur collar of a red velvet mantle, the left holding a basket of fruit and flowers. Called also Dorothea. Attributed to Raphael; engraved as a Raphael by Bernardi, T. Chambers, and others. Inferior replica in Casa Persico Cittadella, Verona.—C. & C., N. Italy, ii. 320; Waagen, Treasures, iii. 125.

La Fornarina, Sebastian del Piombo, Uffizi, Florence.

La Fornarina, Raphael, Palazzo Barberini, Rome.

By Sebastian del Piombo (attributed to Raphael), Uffizi, Florence; canvas, H. 2 ft. 2 in. × 1 ft. 10 in.; dated 1512. The bust of a young and beautiful lady of rank, nearly full face, with a wreath of gold leaves on her head; dress, a blue velvet bodice with muslin chemisette, and a green velvet mantle with panther-skin collar. The gold chain on her neck is by some restorer. In possession of the Medici, Florence, since 1589. Kugler thinks it a portrait of Vittoria Colonna; others, of the Improvisatrice Beatrice da Ferrara. Copy attributed to Giulio Romano in Palazzo Corsini, Rome. Engraved