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ones exists; some of them catalogued as by Francia Bigio, and bearing his monogram; others with a similar cogniz ance, yet classed as by Raphael or Andrea del Sarto. The. first, known for centuries as Francia Bigio’s, is that in the Pitti Gallery at Florence, of a youth in cap, tunic, and mantle, at a window through which we look at a pleasant, but not brightly lighted, undulating distance. A glove is in his right hand. The left gesticulates na turally. The pose is free, showing to advantage a hand some and juvenile person; the face is open, and the eyes beaming with a suppressed smile. A good flow of- hair falls from his black cap to the dark dress that covers the shoulders. 1 On the border is the monogram twice re peated and the date: “A. S. (anno salutis) M.D.XIIII.” Restorers have seriously interfered with the beauty of the figure; and the flesh has become tawny from time and retouching, but the style is here and at the Louvre per fectly alike, though it betrays a more recent date, and a more habitual skill in the painter. Superior to this of the Pitti, in every sense, is the fine portrait of Stanstead House, which Mr. Fuller Maitland attributes to Raphael in spite of Francia Bi gio’s monogram. We cannot affect to contemn the reasons which induce the owner of such a masterpiece to cling to the name of Sanzio, when we remem ber that that of the Louvre has been for years so-called; and the stamp of art is similar and discloses the same hand in both. Whilst in the latter Francia Bigio ex hibits the diligence, the precision and power of a man full of eagerness to excel, as well as to embody the maxims of Leonardo, the former discloses less care fulness, but more self-possession, a greater ease in the' use of colours of a solid texture, more elasticity and good breeding in the pose, beauty in the contour and modelling in form. In this very progress lies, we admit, 1 Pitti Gallery, No. 43. The mo- ler: “Die Monogrammisten”. 8 11 . nogram may he found in the Ber- Munehen, 1861. II. Band, p. 20V. lin catalogue, No. 245, or in Nag-