. Antonio Allegri da Correggio, his life, his friends, and his time. vepreceded the Marriage of St. Catherine. These are the Madonna suckling the Child, known as theMadonna del Latte, the Virginand Child with the Basket, knownas the Madonna delta Cesta, andthe Virgin adoring the InfantChrist. Great uncertainty prevails asto the first of these, owing to themany old copies that exist, andthe contradictory statements ofdifferent writers. The Virgin, smiling placidly,offers her left breast to the In-fant Jesus; he, however, layingone little hand on her shoulder, turns away to take the fruit offere
. Antonio Allegri da Correggio, his life, his friends, and his time. vepreceded the Marriage of St. Catherine. These are the Madonna suckling the Child, known as theMadonna del Latte, the Virginand Child with the Basket, knownas the Madonna delta Cesta, andthe Virgin adoring the InfantChrist. Great uncertainty prevails asto the first of these, owing to themany old copies that exist, andthe contradictory statements ofdifferent writers. The Virgin, smiling placidly,offers her left breast to the In-fant Jesus; he, however, layingone little hand on her shoulder, turns away to take the fruit offeredhim by a winged angel, in the version at Budapest, by the littleSt. John, in the example at the Hermitage. Domenico Ottonellidescribed a similar picture in 1652, in his Trattato delta pitttira,zbut it has not been possible to trace its subsequent history, and wehave therefore no means of identifying it with any of the existing ex-amples. When Ottonelli saw it, it was in the possession of a certainGottifredo Periberti, having previously passed through the hands of. DRAWING ASCRIBED TO CORREGGIO OF THE MARRIAGE OFST. CATHERINE. In the Royal Library, Turin. 1 Itpittor delle grazie, quoted above. Venturi has treated this picture most exhaustivelyin his study, Un quadro del Correggio (Modena, 1882), reprinted in the periodical, Arte eStoria, year hi. no. 3. Florence, 1894. 2 Mengs, Opere, ii. p. 150. 3 Odomenigico Lelonotti (an anagram of his name), Trattato delta pittura e sculturauso e abuso loro, composto da tin teologo e da un pittore, p. 155. Florence, , ii. p. 128. THE MADONNA DEL LATTE 177 the Aldobrandini family, of the Princess Rossano, one of their heirs,and of Cardinal di San Giorgio. Padre Resta, in his Indicc delParnaso dei pittori} boasting of having once owned the originaldrawing, says that the picture, formerly in the possession of MuzioOrsini, had been acquired by the Marchese del Carpio, and that therewas also a replica in an ancient Roman house. Hi
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