who put in a still better head. Replica in Palazzo Rospiglioso, Rome, and in Madrid Museum. Engraved by Duchange; Desrochers; Müller; Porporati.—Meyer, Correggio, 347, 490; Künst. Lex., i. 440; Landon, Œuvres, viii. Pl. 55; Klas. der Malerei (group), i. Pl. 52; Réveil, xii. 859.
By Michelangelo, National Gallery, London. Leda embracing the swan. A large picture painted in tempera, about 1529. Given to Antonio Mini, his pupil, who carried it to France and sold it to Francis I.; was at Fontainebleau till reign of Louis XIV. Desnoyers ordered it to be burned, but Mariette is said to have seen it in the 18th century. A cartoon of it, formerly erroneously ascribed to Michelangelo and once in the Casa Vecchietti, Florence, is now in the Royal Academy, London.—Vasari, ed. Mil., vii. 199; Clement, 345; Waagen, Treasures, i. 391; Revue univ. des Arts, xxii. 158; Rosini, v. 65; Gaz. des B. Arts (1876), xiii. 155.
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Leda, Tintoretto, Norton Collection, England.
By Tintoretto, Norton Collection, England; canvas. Leda, nude, reclining on drapery spread upon a couch overhung with curtains, caresses the swan; at her feet, a little dog barking at the swan; at side, a woman, draped, leaning over as if to take from a coop a duck with which a cat is playing; in background, a bird in a cage. Formerly in Orleans Gallery; sold to Mr. Willett for £200. Engraved by G. Mondet.—Ch. Blanc, École vénitienne.
By Paolo Veronese, Dresden Gallery; canvas, H. 3 ft. 4 in. × 3 ft. Leda with the swan. Acquired in 1744 from Casa Grimani Calergi, Venice.
By Paolo Veronese, Monro-Johnstone Collection, London; canvas. Leda with the swan. Exquisitely modelled. Probably same picture as one in Orleans Gallery, which was sold to Earl Gower for £300.—Waagen, Treasures, ii. 132, 498.
Subject treated also by François Boucher, Stockholm Museum; Frans Grosse, Dresden Gallery; Alessandro Turchi; Andrea del Sarto, Brussels Museum; Pontormo, Uffizi, Florence; Jean Briemond (1845); Narciso Diaz (1846); Camille Roqueplan (1850); Hans Makart; L. E. Rioult (1850); Louis Riesener (1855); Paul Baudry (1857); Nicolas Auguste Galimard (1858); Charles H. Muller (1861); Adolphe Jourdan (1864); Charles Edouard Boutibonne (1864); Gaston Saint-Pierre (1865); Edouard de Beaumont (1868); J. M. Sevestre (1870).
LEE, FREDERIC RICHARD, born at
Barnstaple, Devon, in 1799, died at Cape
of Good Hope, June 4, 1879. Landscape
painter; served a campaign as a soldier in
the Netherlands, but returning home in ill
health became a student at the Royal Academy
in 1818; elected an A.R.A. in 1834,
and R.A. in 1838. Subjects chiefly English
and Scottish scenery. Painted latterly in
conjunction with T. S. Cooper. Works:
Showery Weather (1834), Cover Side (1839),
Evening in Meadows (1854), River Scene
(1855), National Gallery, London; Breakers
