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LEE who put in a still better head. Replica in | same picture as one in Orleans Gallery, Palazzo Rospiglioso, Rome, and in Madrid which was sold to Earl Gower for 300. Museum. Engraved by Duchange ; Desro- Waagen, Treasures, ii. 132, 4:98. chers ; Mtiller ; Porporati. Meyer, Correg- I Subject treated also by Franyois Boucher, gio, 347, 490 ; Kiinst. Lex., i. 440 ; Laudon, (Euvres, viii. PI. 55 ; Klas. der Malerei (group), i. PI. 52 ; Reveil, sii. 859. By Michelangelo, National Gallery, Lon- Stockholm Museum ; Frans Grosse, Dres- den Gallery ; Alessandro Turchi ; Andrea del Sarto, Brussels Museum ; Pontormo, Uffizi, Florence ; Jean Briemoud (1845) ; don. Leda embracing the swan. A large , Narciso Diaz (184C) ; Camille Roqueplan picture painted in tempera, about 1529. (1850); Hans Makart ; L. E. Rioult (1850); Given to Antonio Mini, his pupil, who car- Louis Riesencr (1855); Paul Baudry (1857) ; ried it to France and sold it to Francis I; Nicolas Auguste Galimard (1858) ; Charles was at Fontainebleau till reign of Louis H. Muller (1801) ; Adolphc Jourdan (1804) ; XIV. Desnoyers ordered it to be burned, , Charles Edouard Boutibonne (18G4) ; Gas- but Mariette is said to have seen it in the 18th century. A cartoon of it, formerly erroneously ascribed to Michelangelo and once in the Casa Vecchietti, Flor- ence, is now in the Royal Academy, London. Va- sari, ed. Mil., vii. 199 ; Clement, 345 ; Waagen, Treasures, i. 391 ; Revue univ. des Arts, xxii. 158 ; Rosini, v. 65 ; Gaz. des B. Arts (187G), xiii. 155. By Tintoretto, Norton Collection, England ; can- vas. Leda, nude, reclining on drapery spread upon a couch overhung with cur- tains, caresses the swan ; at her foot, a little ton Saint-Pierre (1865) ; Edouard do Beau- dog barking at the swan ; at side, a woman, mout (1868) ; J. M. Sevestre (1870). draped, leaning over as if to take from a LEE, FREDERIC RICHARD, born at coop a duck with which a cat is playing ; Barnstaplc, Devon, in 1799, died at Cape in background, a bird in a cage. Formerly of Good Hope, June 4, 1879. Landscape in Orleans Gallery ; sold to Mr. Willett for painter ; served a campaign as a soldier in 200. Engraved by G. Mondet. Ch. Blanc, the Netherlands, but returning home in ill Ecole venitienne. health became a student at the Royal Acacl- By Paolo Veronese, Dresden Gallery ; can- envy in 1818 ; elected an A.R.A. in 1834, vas, H. 3 ft. 4 in. x3 ft. Leda with the and R.A. in 1838. Subjects chiefly English swan. Acquired in 1744 from Casa Gri- and Scottish scenery. Painted latterly in mani Calergi, Venice. conjunction with T. S. Cooper. Works : By Paolo Veronese, Monro-Johnstone Col- Showery Weather (1834), Cover Side (1839), lection, London ; canvas. Leda with the Evening in Meadows (1854), River Scene swan. Exquisitely modelled. Probably i (1855), National Gallery, London ; Breakers Leda, Tir.toretto, Norton Collection, England.