HOLY ground, to right, St. Joseph loading the ass from a stable ; above, three angels singing Holy Family, Federigo Barocuo, National Gallery, London. from a scroll. Painted about 1503-0. En- graved by S. Martelli. Gal. du Pal. Pitti, i. PI. 1. ; d & C., Italy, iii. 486 ; Meyer, Kiinst. Lex., 219. By Federigo Jitin>ci->.<>, National Gallery, London ; canvas, H. 13 ft. 9 in. x 3 ft. The Virgin, seated in an apartment, with Jesus in her lap, clasps with her right arm St. John, who holds up a bird in his hand to protect it from a cat, watching it from left- hand corner ; behind, at right, St. Joseph. Sometimes called Madonna del Gatto (of the Cat). Painted for Count Antonio Branca- leoni ; belonged to Cesarei family of Peru- gia, and later (1805) to Buchanan and to Rev. "V. H. Carr, who bequeathed it in 1831 to the National Gallery. Several old copies. Engraved by C. Cort (1577) ; A. Cardon ; J. P. Leybold. By Fra Bartolommeo, Palazzo Corsini, Rome; wood, H. 4 ft. in. x 2 ft. 2 in.; signed, dated 1516. The Virgin, seated in a flowery meadow, holds Jesus, who strug- gles to cast his arms round the little Bap- tist's neck ; St. Joseph looks on, smiling. A likeness between the Virgin and Raphael's portrait of Maddalena Doni in the Pitti warrants the assumption that this is the picture which Vasari says was painted for Agnolo Doni. Copy in Musce Fabre, Mont- pellier. Vasari, ed. Mil., iv. 183 ; C. & C., Italy, iii. 468. By Fra Jiartdommeo, Panshanger House, England ; wood, H. 3 ft. 5 in. X 4 ft. 3 in. The Virgin seated, holding Jesus, who is taking the reed cross from the infant St. John standing at right ; at left, St. Joseph seated, smiling ; background, a beautiful landscape with a bright horizon and a palm- tree. Painted about 1509, probably for Filippo Salviati. "The colouring," says Waagen, who considers this the finest pict- ure of the artist, " is of extraordinary warmth and depth." C. A: C., Italy, iv. 449 ; Waa- gen, Treasures, iii. 10. By Fra Barlvlommrv, Palazzo Pitti, Flor- ence ; wood, H. 3 ft. 2 in. x 3 ft. The Vir- gin, seated, holds Jesus, who embraces the infant Baptist kneeling ; behind, SS. Eliza- Holy Family, Fra Bartolommeo, Panshanger House, England. beth and Joseph ; background, a green cur- tain. An inverted replica, with changes, of the Holy Family of the Palazzo Corsiui. 274
