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Chap. XII. LORENZO DI CREDI. 413 Venice. Academy. No. 254. Round of the Holy Family, once in the Manfrini collection (wood, oil). See, postea, Raffaellino del Garbo. Turin. Museum. Lately bequeathed by the Barollo Family. The Virgin offers a bunch of grapes to the infant, naked on her lap; — on a window sill, a vase of flowers, and through the opening, a land scape. This is a scene of pleasing maternal affection, by Credi in his good period; — a mixture of the schools of Leonardo, Ver rocchio, and Botticelli, — ex. gr. as regards types (wood, oil, figu res half life size). Colour, of good impasto. — No. 589. Virgin and child (wood, oil), later in date than the foregoing and not so fine, but still graceful. The Virgin’s head scaled. Forii. Galleria Communale. No. 99. Female portrait, three quarters to the right, originally fine, in Florentine dress, Leonardesque, noble, and high bred, said to be Catherine Sforza (?) greatly injured by- restoring, especially in the flesh parts (wood, oil). In one hand, a flower, the other resting on a vase. Naples. Museum. Nativity, the child on the ground between the kneeling Virgin and S. Joseph, two angels attending (wood, oil), genuine. Munich. Pinakolhek. S. No. 653. Round of the Nativity, almost a replica (reversed) of No. 1287 at the Uffizi (wood, oil, all but life size), fine but somewhat abraded, and consequently cold. Schleissheim. Gallery. No. 1144. Virgin and child in Credi’s manner, but repainted. — No. 1138. Same subject with massacre of the Innocents indistance, by some German painter of the sixteenth century. Berlin. Museum. No. 103. Magdalen penitent, once in S. Chiara of Florence (Vasari, VIII. 205), (wood, figure life size), a good ex ample of the master. — No. 100. (Wood), Nativity. Genuine. — Nos. 89. Nativity, and 92, Adoration of the Kings, less attractive and perhaps school pieces. Dresden. Gallery. No. 34. The Virgin, with the infant kissing the young Baptist (small), not by Credi, but by a third class follower of Botticelli and Filippino. Altenhury. Lindenau Gallery. (Wood, tempera, renewed in oil ) Virgin adoring the child. School of Botticelli. Louvre. Musee Napoleon Ill. Ex-Campana. No. 218. Christ ap pearing to the Magdalen, weaker replica of that of the Uffizi (see antea), original, but abraded. — No. 219. Annunciation, same cha racter. — Nos. 220. 221. of the school. London. National Gallery. No. 593. Virgin and child (wood), — No. 648. The Virgin adoring the infant Christ (wood), formerly in