chiaroscuro effects, and lost ground. He enjoyed the favour of the Elector William of Brandenburg, and of Prince Maurice of Nassau, for whom he executed many pictures. Works: Annunciation to the Shepherd, Portrait of a Young Girl (1641), Louvre; Female portrait (1640), Brussels Museum; Loving Couple (attributed), Antwerp Museum; Isaac blessing Jacob (1638), Fête of the Civic Guard (1648), National Museum, Amsterdam; Marcus Curius Dentatus, Solomon praying for Wisdom, Royal Palace, ib.; The Archers (1642), City Hall, ib.; Portrait of a Man and his Sister (1646), Rotterdam Museum; Solomon and Queen of Sheba (with Dirk van Delen), Lille Museum; Female portrait (1636), Brunswick Museum; do., Städel Gallery, Frankfort; Woman and Child, Darmstadt Museum; Guard Room, Old Pinakothek Munich; 3 male portraits (two dated 1639, 1643), David and Uriah, Dresden Gallery; Female portrait (1641), Expulsion of Hagar, Berlin Museum; 2 portraits, Copenhagen Gallery; 3 portraits (one dated 1637), Hermitage, St. Petersburg; Portrait of Old Man (1651), Vienna Museum; Portrait of a Lady (1648), Marquis of Bute, London; Bathsheba's Appeal to David, National Gallery, Dublin.—Allgem. d. Biogr., vii. 122; Ch. Blanc, École hollandaise; Havard, A. & A. hol., ii. 73; Repertorium f. K., iv. 108; Riegel, Beiträge, ii. 269; Zeitschr. f. b. K., x. 224, 381.
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FLORA. See Columbine.
FLORA, Titian, Uffizi, Florence; canvas,
life-size figure, seen to hip. A woman,
lightly clad, her hair looped with a silken
cord and falling in waves to the bosom,
strives with one hand to hold the muslin
falling from her shoulders while presenting
roses, jessamines, and violets with the other
to some unseen person. Painted about
1520. Once owned by Don Alfonzo Lopez,
who also owned the Ariosto of Cobham
Hall; first exhibited in Florence in 1793,
when taken from the Duke's Guardaroba.—C.
& C., Titian, i. 270; Lavice, 53.
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Flora, Titian, Uffizi, Florence.
FLORA, TRIUMPH OF, Nicolas Poussin,
Louvre, Paris; canvas, H. 5 ft. 5 in. × 7 ft.
11 in. At right, Flora, seated upon a chariot,
drawn by two loves or zephyrs, and preceded
by women and men singing and dancing,
is accompanied by nymphs, youths, and
loves bearing flowers; two loves, flying, are
about to crown her; a warrior, standing,
offers flowers in a buckler. Painted about
1630 for Cardinal Omodei, whence passed to
collection of Louis XIV. Engraved by E.
Fessard (1770), Audran, Marie Horthemels.—Filhol,
iii. Pl. 199; Villot, Cat. Louvre.
FLORE. See Fiore.
