_From the Gallery of Cardinal Fesch_, and presumably the same as the
picture in the Collection of James II. I have sought to identify this
piece with the picture "da una Nocte," painted by Giorgione for Vittorio
Beccare (See p. 20, and Appendix quoting the original document.)
MR. R.H. BENSON'S COLLECTION.
HOLY FAMILY. Wood, 14 in. x 17 in.
New Gallery, 1895. [No. 148.] (See p. 96.)
MADONNA AND CHILD. Wood, 1 ft. 6 in. x 1 ft. 10 in.
New Gallery, 1895. [No. 1, under Titian's name.] (See p. 101.)
_From the Burghley House Collection._
PORTRAIT OF A MAN. Canvas, 38 in. x 32 in.
Copy of a lost original. Three-quarter length; life-size; standing
towards right; head facing; hands resting on a column, glove in left;
black dress, cut square at throat.
New Gallery, 1895. [No. 52, as "Unknown."] (See p. 74.)
COBHAM HALL, THE EARL OF DARNLEY'S COLLECTION.
PORTRAIT OF A MAN. Canvas, 2 ft. 1 in. x 2 ft. 9 in.
Erroneously called Ariosto, and ascribed to Titian.
I have sought to identify this with the "Portrait of a Gentleman" of the
Barberigo family, said by Vasari to have been painted by Titian at the
age of eighteen. (See p. 69.)
HERON COURT, THE EARL OF MALMESBURY.
THE JUDGMENT OF PARIS. Canvas, 22 in. x 28 in.
Copy of an unidentified original, of which other versions are to be
found at Dresden, Venice (Pal. Albuzio), and Christiania. This one is
probably a Bolognese repetition of the seventeenth century.
Ridolfi mentions this subject in his list of Giorgione's works.
New Gallery, 1895. [No. 29.]
HERTFORD HOUSE, WALLACE COLLECTION.
VENUS DISARMING CUPID. 3 ft. 7 in. x 3 ft. [No. 19.]
The picture was engraved as a Giorgione when in the Orleans Gallery.
(See p. 93.)
KENT HOUSE, THE LATE LOUISA LADY ASHBURTON.
TWO FIGURES IN A LANDSCAPE. Panel. 18 in. x 17 in.
The damaged state precludes any certainty of judgment. The composition
is that of the Adrastus and Hypsipyle picture; the colouring recalls
the National Gallery "Golden Age(?)." If an original, it is quite an
early work. New Gallery, 1895. [No. 147.]
TWO FIGURES (half-lengths), A WOMAN AND A MAN.
Copy after a missing original, and in the style of the figures at
Oldenburg. (See Venturi, _La Gall. Crespi_.) This or the original was
engraved as a Giorgione in 1773 by Dom. Cunego ex tabula Romae in
aedibus Burghesianis asservata.
KINGSTON LACY, COLLECTION OF MR. RALPH BANKES.
THE JUDGMENT OF SOLOMON. Canvas, 6 ft. 10 in. x 10 ft. 5 in.
Mentioned by Dr. Waagen, Suppl. Ridolfi (1646) mentions: "In casa
Grimani da Santo Ermagora la Sentenza di Salomone, di bella macchia,
colla figura del ministro non finita." Afterwards in the Marescalchi
Gallery at Bologna, where (1820) it was seen by Lord Byron, who
especially praised it (vide _Life and Letters_, ed. by Moore, p. 705),
and at whose suggestion it was purchased by his friend Mr. Bankes. (See
p. 25.)
Exhibited Royal Academy, 1869.
A PAINTED CEILING.
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