as a Raphael by R. Morghen and others.—Vasari, ed. Mil., iv. 357; v. 567; C. & C., N. Italy, ii. 319; Passavant; Kugler (Eastlake), ii. 465; Rosini, iv. 241; Burckhardt, 660, 722.
By Raphael, Palazzo Barberini, Rome; figure to the knees. A half-nude woman, seated in a myrtle and laurel wood, with a striped yellow cloth about her head and her hair bound with a circlet of gold with leaves and flowers, garnished with precious stones; her right hand holds light gauze against her breast, her left lies carelessly on the red garment over her knees. On a bracelet on her left arm is inscribed Raphael Urbinas. Commonly called Raphael's Mistress; name Fornarina (bakeress), given about middle of last century. Many copies. Painted about 1509; in 1595 was in the Casa Santa Fiora, Rome; acquired about 1642 by Barberini family. Engraved by Cunego, Desnoyers, Godefroy, Aubert.—Vasari, ed. Mil., iv. 355; Rumohr, Ital. Forsch., iii. 113; Passavant, ii. 99; Müntz, 387, 606; Gruyer, Portraits de la Fornarina; Archivio della Societa Romana di Storia Patria, ii. (1878) 46; iii. (1879) 234; Kugler (Eastlake), ii. 465; Springer, 251, 509.
FORNASO, IL. See Civerchio.
FÖRSTER, ERNST JOACHIM, born at
Münchengosserstadt,
near Altenburg, April
8, 1800, died in Munich,
April 29, 1885.
History and portrait
painter and art writer,
pupil in Berlin
of K. Zimmermann
and W. Schadow,
studied then in Dresden,
and from 1832
in Munich under Cornelius. In 1824-25
he painted frescos in the Hall of Bonn
University. He twice visited Italy, and in
1837-40 discovered and restored Altichieri's
wall paintings in the Chapel of St. George
in S. Antonio, Padua. Lives in Munich.
Works: Hellas Liberated; Giotto and Cimabue;
Portraits of Duke and Duchess of
Altenburg and Children. Frescos: Theology
(1824-25), Aula, Bonn University;
Liberation of German Army
through Otto von Wittelsbach,
near Verona, Arcades, Royal
Garden, Munich; Scenes from
Goethe's Poems and Scenes from
Wieland's Musarion and Grazien
(1833), Royal Palace, Munich.—Kunst-Chronik,
xx. 603; Meyer, Conv. Lex., vi. 948.
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FÖRSTERLING, OTTO, born in Berlin, June 18, 1843. Genre and landscape painter, pupil of Berlin Academy and of Julius Schrader, settled in 1867 at Klein Zschachwitz, near Dresden, whence he visited Germany, Austria, and Italy. Works: Morning Dew; Nymph of the Spring; Woodland Tale; Snow-Drop; Water-Sprite in Grotto; Fight between Centaurs and Tigers; Judas in the Storm during the Crucifixion (1885).—Müller, 180.
FORT, JEAN ANTOINE SIMÉON, also
called Siméon-Fort, born at Valence (Drôme),
Aug. 28, 1793, died in Paris, Dec. 24, 1861.
Landscape painter in water-colour, pupil of
C. Brune. Was employed with Morel and
Puissant to continue Bagetti's water-colours
in Versailles. Medals: 2d class, 1831; 1st
class, 1836; L. of Honour, 1842. Works:
Study near Marly; Falls of the Doubs; Mill
of Dugny; Convent of the Virgin del Sasso;
Town and Palace of St. Cloud (Comte Pozzo
di Borgo); Wolf's Gorge; Bottoms of Rochat;
Slopes of Bellevue; Banks of the
Meuse; Manufactory in Dauphiné; Banks
of Lake Maggiore; Chateau d'Eu; views in
Africa; Oaks of the Doubs; Simplon Road;
Maritime Alps; Hollow Road, Valley of the
Meudon; Smugglers; Young Woman of
Nivernois, Portrait of a Child (1824 to 1853).—Larousse.
FORTIN, CHARLES, born in Paris, June
12, 1815, died there, Oct. 19, 1865. Landscape
and genre painter, pupil of Beaume
and Camille Roqueplan; painted chiefly
subjects of peasant life in Brittany. Medals:
1st class, 1849, 1857, 1859, and 1861; L.
