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 as a Raphael by R. Morghen and others.—Vasari, ed. Mil., iv. 357; v. 567; C. & C., N. Italy, ii. 319; Passavant; Kugler (Eastlake), ii. 465; Rosini, iv. 241; Burckhardt, 660, 722.

By Raphael, Palazzo Barberini, Rome; figure to the knees. A half-nude woman, seated in a myrtle and laurel wood, with a striped yellow cloth about her head and her hair bound with a circlet of gold with leaves and flowers, garnished with precious stones; her right hand holds light gauze against her breast, her left lies carelessly on the red garment over her knees. On a bracelet on her left arm is inscribed Raphael Urbinas. Commonly called Raphael's Mistress; name Fornarina (bakeress), given about middle of last century. Many copies. Painted about 1509; in 1595 was in the Casa Santa Fiora, Rome; acquired about 1642 by Barberini family. Engraved by Cunego, Desnoyers, Godefroy, Aubert.—Vasari, ed. Mil., iv. 355; Rumohr, Ital. Forsch., iii. 113; Passavant, ii. 99; Müntz, 387, 606; Gruyer, Portraits de la Fornarina; Archivio della Societa Romana di Storia Patria, ii. (1878) 46; iii. (1879) 234; Kugler (Eastlake), ii. 465; Springer, 251, 509.

FORNASO, IL. See Civerchio.

FÖRSTER, ERNST JOACHIM, born at Münchengosserstadt, near Altenburg, April 8, 1800, died in Munich, April 29, 1885. History and portrait painter and art writer, pupil in Berlin of K. Zimmermann and W. Schadow, studied then in Dresden, and from 1832 in Munich under Cornelius. In 1824-25 he painted frescos in the Hall of Bonn University. He twice visited Italy, and in 1837-40 discovered and restored Altichieri's wall paintings in the Chapel of St. George in S. Antonio, Padua. Lives in Munich. Works: Hellas Liberated; Giotto and Cimabue; Portraits of Duke and Duchess of Altenburg and Children. Frescos: Theology (1824-25), Aula, Bonn University; Liberation of German Army through Otto von Wittelsbach, near Verona, Arcades, Royal Garden, Munich; Scenes from Goethe's Poems and Scenes from Wieland's Musarion and Grazien (1833), Royal Palace, Munich.—Kunst-Chronik, xx. 603; Meyer, Conv. Lex., vi. 948.

FÖRSTERLING, OTTO, born in Berlin, June 18, 1843. Genre and landscape painter, pupil of Berlin Academy and of Julius Schrader, settled in 1867 at Klein Zschachwitz, near Dresden, whence he visited Germany, Austria, and Italy. Works: Morning Dew; Nymph of the Spring; Woodland Tale; Snow-Drop; Water-Sprite in Grotto; Fight between Centaurs and Tigers; Judas in the Storm during the Crucifixion (1885).—Müller, 180.

FORT, JEAN ANTOINE SIMÉON, also called Siméon-Fort, born at Valence (Drôme), Aug. 28, 1793, died in Paris, Dec. 24, 1861. Landscape painter in water-colour, pupil of C. Brune. Was employed with Morel and Puissant to continue Bagetti's water-colours in Versailles. Medals: 2d class, 1831; 1st class, 1836; L. of Honour, 1842. Works: Study near Marly; Falls of the Doubs; Mill of Dugny; Convent of the Virgin del Sasso; Town and Palace of St. Cloud (Comte Pozzo di Borgo); Wolf's Gorge; Bottoms of Rochat; Slopes of Bellevue; Banks of the Meuse; Manufactory in Dauphiné; Banks of Lake Maggiore; Chateau d'Eu; views in Africa; Oaks of the Doubs; Simplon Road; Maritime Alps; Hollow Road, Valley of the Meudon; Smugglers; Young Woman of Nivernois, Portrait of a Child (1824 to 1853).—Larousse.

FORTIN, CHARLES, born in Paris, June 12, 1815, died there, Oct. 19, 1865. Landscape and genre painter, pupil of Beaume and Camille Roqueplan; painted chiefly subjects of peasant life in Brittany. Medals: 1st class, 1849, 1857, 1859, and 1861; L.