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London, Published by Verner Hood & Share Poultry, 1807

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THE VIRGIN, SAINT ANNE, AND THE

INFANT JESUS.

LEONARDO DA VINCI.

THE Virgin is seen seated in the lap of St. Anne, and bends forward to take the infant Jesus in her arms, who is playing with a lamb.

It is somewhat singular that Leonardo should have placed a female, of the age apparently of eighteen, upon the lap of her mother. This composition the artist has copied, and there is still existing a similar picture at Milan.

This picture formed a part of the old collection of paintings at the Louvre ;-it is painted on wood, about five feet two inches high, and three feet ten inches broad.

This master was descended from a noble family, and born at the castle of Vinci, near Florence, in 1445. From the excellence of his genius, his proficiency was so rapid that he surpassed his instructor, Andrea Verocchio, in such an eminent degree, that it provoked him to quit the profession entirely. His talents were of the most comprehensive kind, and the virtues of his mind were only excelled by his understanding.

In the year 1494 he went to Milan, where he was most affectionately received by the Duke Ludovico Sforza, and the fondness which that prince afterwards expressed

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