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CHRIST scape with a city. Painted about 1549. Formerly in Fesch and Comngham galleries. C. & C., N. Italy, i. 382 ; Waagen, Treas- ures, ii. 178. By Johann Friedrich Overbeck, Hamburg Hospital ; canvas, H. 11 ft. x 7 ft. The Savi- our kneeling, his head bowed in anguish, his hands raised in ecstasy; below, the three disciples lying asleep ; above, in a glory amid clouds, an angel bearing the cross. Atkin- son, 63. By Pietro Perugino, Florence Academy ; wood, H. 4 ft. x 4 ft. 3 in. Christ kneeling in prayer while an angel brings the cup ; the three apostles asleep in foreground, and Ju- das bringing the soldiers in background. Painted in 1495 for the convent of the Ge- suiti, Florence, as a companion to the Field of Florence Academy. Engraved by Chios- sone. Vasari, ed. Mil., iii. 573 ; C. & C., Italy, iii. 199 ; Gall, dell' Accad. di Firenze, PI. 52. By Raphael, Stanstead House, Sussex, Eng.; wood, H. 2 ft. x 2 ft. 3 in. Christ kneels upon a hillock, against which lean the three sleeping disciples ; above, at left, an angel descending with the cup ; in dis- tance, at right, Judas with six soldiers ; back- ground, a landscape with hills and a town. Painted for Duke Guidobaldo of Urbino about 1504. Formerly in Palazzo Gabrielli, Home, whence stolen in 1820, and sold for 40 scudi ; but recovered and sold to the Woodburns for 4000 scudi ; bought from Coningham Collection by Mr. Maitland of Stanstead House for 787. Engraved by L. Grtiner for German edition of Passavant, PI. x. Vasari, ed. Mil., iv. 323 ; Passavant, ii. 20 ; Waagen, Treasures, iii. 4. By Tintoretto, Scuola di S. Rocco, Venice ; canvas. The most hastily painted of all the S. Eocco pictures. Christ represented sleeping, the angel with the cup appearing to him as a dream ; James and John also asleep, and Peter wakening and turning his head toward Judas approaching with the troop. Euskin, Stones of Venice, iii. 337. By Titian, Escorial, Spain ; canvas, fig- ures half life-size. Christ, kneeling, looks to the left, where an angel is descending, while Peter and the sons of Zebedee sleep on the grass. Painted in 1562 for Philip H of Spain ; placed in the Sala Prioral of the Escorial, where it became nearly ruined from neglect. Imitation of similar picture by Correggio, now at Apsley House, Eng- land. C. & C., Titian, ii. 320. Subject treated also by Giotto, Uffizi, Flor- ence ; Gentile da Fabriano, Cluuy Museum ; Garofalo, National Gallery, London ; Brusa- sorci, Louvre ; Schidone, Lyons Museum ; Daniele Crespi, Berlin Museum ; Annibale Carracci, Madrid Museum ; Anton van Dyck, ib. ; Chimenti da Empoli, ib. ; Juan de Juanes, ib. ; Fr. Trevisani, Dresden Gallery ; Lan- franco, Munich Gallery ; Leandro Bassano, Venice Academy ; Jacopo Bassano, ib. ; Mu- rillo, Louvre ; Memling, Liibeck Cathedral ; Wohlgemuth, Munich Gallery ; Lucas Cra- nach, Berlin Museum, Vienna Museum; Adri- an van der Werf, Munich Gallery ; Hans Burgkmair, Augsburg Gallery ; Eugene De- lacroix (Salon, 1827) ; Ary Scheffer (Salon, 1839); Theodore Chasseriau (Salon, 1844); M. de Eudder (Salon, 1863). CHEIST IN GLORY, AND SAINTS, Domenico Ghirlandajo, Palazzo Pubblico, Volterra. Christ, in a glory of angels, gives a blessing from the heavens ; below, SS. Romualdo and Benedict stand looking up- ward, and SS. Attinia and Greciniana kneel in ecstasy ; in right corner, a Camaldolen- sian monk at prayer. Painted about 1486 by order of Lorenzo de' Medici for the Badia or Abbey of S. Giusto, Volterra. In- jured by restoring in oil. Engraved (1583) by Diana Ghisi. Vasari, ed. Mil., iii. 273 ; 1 C. & C., Italy, ii. 487. CHEIST THE GOOD SHEPHERD, Murillo, Baron Rothschild, Gunnersbury, near London ; canvas, H. 5 ft. 5 in. x 3 ft. 6 in. The Saviour, about six years old, wear- ing a sheepskin garment, standing, with a crook in his hand, looking up ; on his right, a sheep lying down ; on his left, two sheep standing, his hand on the head of