Antonio Allegri da Correggio, his life, his friends, and his time . s alarmed, andwould have paid double themoney to be rid of thebargain ; but the agreementhad been made, and it wouldhave been neither safe norseemly to play a King ofEngland false. The Antiopeand the Education of Cupidwere among the pictureswhich Thomas Brown,captain of the ship I\Iar-i^aret, took to London After the execution ofCharles I., the Parliamentordered his art treasures tobe sold, and this was accord-ingly done on three several occasions, in 1649, 1650, and 1653. TheAntiope passed into the possession of the
Antonio Allegri da Correggio, his life, his friends, and his time . s alarmed, andwould have paid double themoney to be rid of thebargain ; but the agreementhad been made, and it wouldhave been neither safe norseemly to play a King ofEngland false. The Antiopeand the Education of Cupidwere among the pictureswhich Thomas Brown,captain of the ship I\Iar-i^aret, took to London After the execution ofCharles I., the Parliamentordered his art treasures tobe sold, and this was accord-ingly done on three several occasions, in 1649, 1650, and 1653. TheAntiope passed into the possession of the banker Jabach, a residentin Paris, and a great lover of the arts. Cardinal Mazarin boughtit from him for twenty-five thousand francs ; on the death of thecardinal, it was acquired by Louis XIV., and is now in the history of the Education of Cupid is identical with that of 1 Noel Saintslniry, Ori;^iiittl unpuhlislini papers illustrative of tlie life of Sir PeterPaul Rubens as an artist and diplomatist, p. 28S et seq. London, 1859. Meyer,pp. 236 and THE EDUCATION OF CUPID 305 the ^-liiiiopc, clown to the time of the dispersal of Charles was in the Duke of Mantuas gallery, and figures in the Inventoryof 1627.^ It then became the property of the King of England, andat the sale of his pictures, was bought for ^40 by the Duke of Alva,and taken to Spain. It afterwards belonged to Godoy. Prince of thePeace, who sold his collection in 1S08, during the French occupationof Madrid, and was then acquired by Murat, who brought it back toItaly and placed it in the royal palace at Naples. The travels of theunfortunate picture, which had been bandied about from one collectionto another for two centuries, were not yet over. Caroline Bonaparte,ex-Oueen of Naples, took it to Vienna, and sold it in 1834 to theMarquis of Londonderry, from whom it was finally purchased by theEnglish Government, together with the Eccc Homo already described,and other The
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