. Leonardo da Vinci, artist, thinker and man of science. (Bonnat Collection, Paris.) appreciations — frequentlyhyper-subtle — should bereceived with extremecaution, unhesitatingly at-tributed the Munich pic-ture to a mediocre Flemishpainter, working fromsome drawings of Ver-rocchios. Finally, HerrW. Schmidt puts forwardLorenzo di Credi as itsauthor.^ For my part, Iwill add that what seemsto me the main argument against Leonardos authorship is the type of ^ See the Bulk tin de la Socictc )iatio7iale des Antiqiiaires de Frajue, 1890.—Reper-torium filr Ktaisiwissenschajf, 1891, p. 217—220.—Morell

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. Leonardo da Vinci, artist, thinker and man of science. (Bonnat Collection, Paris.) appreciations — frequentlyhyper-subtle — should bereceived with extremecaution, unhesitatingly at-tributed the Munich pic-ture to a mediocre Flemishpainter, working fromsome drawings of Ver-rocchios. Finally, HerrW. Schmidt puts forwardLorenzo di Credi as itsauthor.^ For my part, Iwill add that what seemsto me the main argument against Leonardos authorship is the type of ^ See the Bulk tin de la Socictc )iatio7iale des Antiqiiaires de Frajue, 1890.—Reper-torium filr Ktaisiwissenschajf, 1891, p. 217—220.—Morelli, Die Galerien zu Mimchentind Dresdett, pp. 349—ii^(>.--Zeitschrift filr bild. Kimst., 1893, p. 139—141. The Virgin with the Carnation has been connected with a drawing in the DresdenGallery attributed to Leonardo and containing a study for a Virgin, a half-length it is by no means clear that this drawing is by the hand of Leonardo. Morelli claimsit for Verrocchio, and the head has certainly something very poor about it, no

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