A monk kneeling in adoration. Landscape background.
Bequeathed by Lieut.-Gen. Sir W. Moore in 1862.
The Madonna and Child. [No. 703.] In tempera, on poplar, 1 ft. 10 in. × 1 ft. 3 in.
The Infant stands on a carpeted parapet in front of its Mother, only half of whose figure is seen: a rocky landscape in the background.
Formerly in the Wallerstein Collection. Presented in 1863 by Her Majesty the Queen, in fulfilment of the wishes of His Royal Highness the Prince Consort.
The Return of Ulysses to Penelope. [No. 911.] A fresco, transferred to canvas, 4 ft. 1 in. × 4 ft. 9 in.
Penelope is seated at her loom; on the floor at her right is a damsel winding thread on shuttles from a ball of yarn which a cat is playing with. Four suitors in gay costume have entered the room; in the background Ulysses himself is seen in the doorway, just entering; his bow and quiver of arrows are hanging up above the head of Penelope.
From the open window is seen the ship of Ulysses, with the hero bound to the mast; sirens are disporting themselves in the sea; the palace of Circe is on an island near, with swine and other animals in its vicinity.
Painted about 1509. Formerly in the Pandolfo Petrucci Palace at Siena; transferred from the wall for M. Joly de Bammeville, in 1844, by Pellegrino Succi. Subsequently in Mr. Barker’s Collection, at whose sale it was purchased in 1874.
OXFORD, TAYLORIAN MUSEUM.