FORMANN went to Rome ; after his return also painted genre scenes. L. of Honour, 1832. Works : Anacreon and Cupid ; Ecce Homo (1819); Christ healing a Young Man Possessed (1827), Louvre ; Calling of St. Fronto (1831), Min- istry of Public Works ; Good Samaritan (1835), Prefecture de la Seine ; Funeral of William the Conqueror (1855). Larousse. FORMANN, HELENA, Rubens, Blen- heim Palace ; canvas, H. G ft. G in. x 4 ft. G in. Rubens' second wife, full-length, in a black silk dress, with white satin sleeves adorned with pearls, and a black velvet cap, walking in the open air, followed by a page with his hat in his hand. Engraved by Earlom. Other portraits of her by Rubens at Windsor Castle, and in Dresden, Munich, Berlin (St. Cecilia], Vienna, The Hague, Louvre, and Hermitage Galleries. Waagen, Art Treasures, iii. 12G ; Smith, ii. 242. FORNARINA, LA, Sebastian del Piombo, Blenheim, England ; wood, life-sixe. Abeau- a striped cloth tied over the crown of the head ; low white dress showing neck ; right hand supporting the fur collar of a red vel- vet mantle, the left holding a basket of fruit La Fornarina, Sebastian del Piombo, Uffizi, Florence. La Fornarina, Raphael, Palazzo Barberini, Rome. and flowers. Called also Dorothea. Attrib- uted to Raphael ; engraved as a Raphael by Bernardi, T. Chambers, and others. Infe- rior replica in Casa Persico Cittadella, Ve- rona. C. & C., N. Italy, ii. 320 ; Waagen, Treasures, iii. 125. By Sebastian del Piombo (attributed to Raphael), Uffizi, Florence ; canvas, H. 2 ft. 2 in. xl ft. 10 in.; dated 1512. The bust of a young and beautiful lady of rank, nearly full face, with a wreath of gold leaves on her head ; dress, a blue velvet bodice with muslin chemisette, and a green velvet man- tle with panther-skin collar. The gold chain on her neck is by some restorer. In posses- sion of the Medici, Florence, since 1589. Kugler thinks it a portrait of Vittoria Co- tiful woman sitting, turned to left, her head lonna ; others, of the Improvisatrice Beatrice almost facing the spectator ; her hair, bound da Ferrara. Copy attributed to Giulio Ro- in a mass at the back of the neck, set off by mano in Palazzo Corsini, Rome. Engraved 73
