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FORTUNE of Honour, 18G1. Works : Sailors making Merry, Rag-Dealer, Return to the Cottage, Cobbler's Shop, Corner of tlie Hearth, Vil- lage Barber (1835 to 1847) ; Cottage in Morbihan, Butcher's Shop, At the Castle of Baz (1849) ; The Country Tailor (1850) ; Chouans (1853), Lille Museum ; The Bless- ing (1855), Luxembourg Museum ; During Vespers (1855), Grenoble Museum ; Hut in Morbihan, Music Lesson, Smoker (1855) ; ( irandfather's Festival, Whip-Lash, Cancans, Country Interior (1850) ; Storm, Country Tailor, Old Story, Interior, Pap (18G1) ; Be- tween two Dilemmas (18(14). Larousse. FORTUNE, Gitido Ileni, Aceademia di S. Luca, Rome ; canvas, H. 4 ft. 11 in. x4 ft. 3 in. Fortune personified by a female figure, nude, with light drapery floating from her Fortune, Guido Reni, Accademia di S. Luca, Rome. shoulders ; she holds in her left hand a kind of purse from which gold pieces drop, and in her right a sceptre and palms. Under her feet is the world, and from behind a winged boy grasps her hair, which floats in the wind. In sonio copies Fortune bears instead of a purse a crown. Carried to Paris in 179G ; returned in 1815, and in Vat- ican until 182G. Filhol, vi. PI. 397, Musue fran<;ais, i. ; Landon, viii. PI. 32. FORTUNE CHASE (Jagd nach dem Gliick), Rudolf Friedrich Hennebery, Na- tional Gallery, Berlin ; canvas, H. G ft. 3 in. x 12 ft. G in. A youth, in the costume of a German nobleman of the Ifitli century, chases on horseback the phantom of Fort- une, who flees before him strewing gold in the path and holding up a crown ; the Devil, who accompanies him, changes into Death, and with a scornful grin unfolds his flag ; at a bridge leading over a ravine lies the youth's guardian angel, over whom he has ridden, hiding her face on the ground ; in background, beyond the ravine, the battle- ments of a mediicval town. FORTUNE-TELLER, Michelangelo da Carawgyio, Capitol Gallery, Rome. One of his earliest works. Meyer, Kiinst. Lex., i. G14. By Michelangelo da C'rtravayyio, Louvre ; canvas, H. 3 ft. 3 in. x 4 ft. 3 in. A gypsy holding the right hand of a young man ele- gantly clad, who appears to listen atten- tively. Bellori says that Caravaggio painted this picture to prove that one can be a good painter without having studied the antique and Raphael, his theory being that the ex- act imitation of nature should be the sole aim of art. Collection of Louis XIV. En- graved by E. Audran. Villot, Cat. Louvre ; Filhol, viii. PI. 537 ; Cab. Crozat, ii. PI. 93. By Sir Joshua Reynold*, Duke of Marl- borough, Blenheim ; canvas. Lady Char- lotte Spencer, as a little gypsy girl, telling the fortune of her brother, Lord Henry Sponcer. By Sir Joshua Reynolds, Earl Amherst, Knowle Park, near Sevenoaks, Kent. Young girl seated, with her right hand held out, by a young man with a red cap, to a gypsy, who is telling her fortune ; background, landscape. Painted in 177G ; sold to Duke of Dorset for 300 guineas. Engraved by Sherwin. Copy by J. R. Powell at Somerby, seat of Earl of Normautou, mistaken by 74