The documents quoted by Signor Venturi show the signature was there in 1640.

[94]

When in the Martinengo Gallery at Brescia (1640) it bore this name. See Venturi, op. cit., and Crowe and Cavalcaselle, Titian, ii. 58.

[95]

From Das Museum, No. 79. "Unbekannter Meister um 1500. Bildnis der Caterina Cornaro." I am informed the original is now in the possession of the German Ambassador at The Hague, and that a plaster cast is at Berlin.

[96]

Dr. Bode (Jahrbuch, 1883, p. 144) says that Count Pourtalès acquired this bust at Asolo.