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OF LEONARDO DA VINCI.
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A picture containing a study of two most delicate female heads, in the Barberini palace at Rome[1].

A portrait of a girl with a book in her hand, in the Strozzi palace in Rome[2].

The Dispute of Jesus with the Doctors, half length, in the Panfili palace[3].

Five pictures in the Ambrosian library at Milan, the subjects not mentioned[4].

Some in the gallery of the archbishopric at Milan, the number and subjects equally unnoticed [5].

One picture in the sacristy of Santa Maria, near St. Celsus at Milan[6].

A small head of Christ, while a youth, mentioned by Lomazzo. Probably this may be the study for the picture of Jesus disputing with the Doctors, at the Panfili palace [7].

St. Michael with a man kneeling, in the King of France’s collection[8].

A Bacchus, in the same collection [9].

The fair Ferraia, in the same collection[10].

A portrait of a lady, there also[11].

A Christ with a globe in his hand [12]. A very fine picture, half length, now in the possession of Richard Troward, Esq. of Pall Mall. This was engraven by Hollar in 1650, in aqua fortis[13].

  1. Add. to Vasari, 59.
  2. Ibid.
  3. Ibid. This is the picture lately exhibited in Brook Street, Grosvenor Square, and is said to have been purchased by the Earl of Warwick.
  4. Add. to Vasari, 59.
  5. Ibid.
  6. Ibid.
  7. Ibid.
  8. Ibid. 60.
  9. Ibid.
  10. Ibid.
  11. Ibid.
  12. Ibid.
  13. Lett. Pitt. vol. ii. 197.
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