Both these pictures belonged to the old collection of the crown, and are to be admired for grace and beauty.
| N° | 940. | (Gallery.) Christ crowned with thorns. |
| 941. | (Gallery.) Christ carried to the grave. |
There is a wonderful vigour of colouring in these two capital pictures.
The preceding are the most admirable of the productions which are at present exhibited of this inimitable master, the first of painters for truth of colouring.
CORREGGIO.
| N° 753. | (Gallery.) The Virgin, the infant Jesus, Mary Magdalen, and St. Jerome. |
This picture, commonly distinguished by the appellation of the St. Jerome of CORREGGIO, is undoubtedly his chef d'œuvre. In the year 1749, the king of Portugal is said to have offered for it a sum equal in value to £18,000 sterling.
| N° | 756. | (Gallery.) The Marriage of St. Catherine. |
| 757. | (Gallery.) Christ taken down from the cross. |
This last-mentioned picture has just been engraved in an excellent manner by an Italian artist, M. ROSA-SPINA.
The grace of his pencil and his chiaro oscuro place CORREGGIO in the first class of painters, where he ranks the third after RAPHAEL and TITIAN. He is inferior to them in design and composition; however the scarceness of his pictures frequently gives them a superior value. Poor CORREGGIO! It grieves one to recollect that he lost his life, in consequence of the fatigue of staggering home under a load of copper coin, which avaricious monks had given him for pictures now become so valuable that they are not to be purchased for their weight, even in gold.