of Rubens, has introduced into it so much of Rubens’s manner[1], that it can no longer be known for Leonardo da Vinci’s. Besides this, Mariette also mentions two other prints, one of them an engraving, the other an etching, but both by unknown authors. He notices also, that the Count di Caylus had etched it in aqua fortis[2]. The print lately engraven of it by Morghen has been already noticed in a former page.
A Nativity, sent as a present from the Duke of Milan to the Emperor[3].
The portraits of Lodovic Sforza, Duke of Milan, and Maximilian his eldest son, and on the other side Beatrix his dutchess, and Francesco his other son, all in one picture, in the same Refectory with the Last Supper[4].
The portraits of two of the handsomest women at Florence, painted by him as a present to Lewis XII[5].
The painting in the council-chamber at Florence[6]. The subject of this is the battle of Attila[7].
A portrait of Ginevra, daughter of Americo Benci[8].
The portrait of Mona Lisa, the wife of Francesco del Giocondo, painted for her husband[9]. Lomazzo
- ↑ Lett. Pitt. vol. ii. 184. The real fact is known to be, that it was engraven from a drawing made by Rubens himself, who, as I am informed, had in it altered the back-ground.
- ↑ Lett. Pitt. vol. ii. 195.
- ↑ Vasari, 30.
- ↑ Vasari, 33.
- ↑ Venturi, 4.
- ↑ Venturi, 37.
- ↑ Suppl. in Vasari, 68.
- ↑ Vasari, 39.
- ↑ Ibid.
