has said, she was a Neapolitan, but this is supposed a mistake, and that she was a Florentine[1]. In a note of Mariette’s, Lett. Pitt. vol. ii. p. 175, this picture is said to have been in the collection of Francis I. King of France, who gave for it 4000 crowns.
A small picture of a child, which was at Pescia, in the possession of Baldassar Turini. It is not known where this now is[2].
A painting of two horsemen struggling for a flag, in the Palais Royal at Paris[3].
A nobleman of Mantua[4].
A picture of Flora, which Du Fresne mentions as being in his time at Paris. This is said to have been once in the cabinet of Mary de Medicis[5], and though for some time supposed to have been painted by Leonardo da Vinci, was discovered by Mariette to have been the work of Francisco Melzi, whose name is upon it[6]. In the supplement to the life of Leonardo, inserted in Della Valle’s edition of Vasari, this picture is said to have been painted for the Duke de S. Simone.
A head of John the Baptist, in the hands of Camillo Albizzo[7].
The Conception of the blessed Virgin, for the church of St. Francis at Milan[8]. This was esteemed a copy, and not worth more than 30 chequins, till an
