[288] Another representation of that story, and one of Poussin’s best originals, is in the gallery of Dresden, in which the river god is extremely advantageous to the composition of the whole.
[289] Plin.
[290] Plato Alcibiad. II. P. 457. l. 30.
[291] Baldinucci, Notiz. de’ P. d. D. P. 118. Argenville seems not to have understood the word, Ciliegia: he saw that it should be a symbol of spring, and changed the cherry to a butterfly; the chief object of the picture he omits, and talks only of the girl.
[292] Lepiciè Vies des P. R. P. II. p. 17, 18.
[293] Recueil d’Estamp. de la Gall. de Dresd. fol. 48.
[294] Pompa & Introitus Ferdinandi Hisp. Inf. p. 15. Antv. 1641. fol.
[295] Vasari vite. P. III. Vol. I. p. 76.
[296] Chambray Idée de la P. p. 107, 108. Bellori Descriz. delle Imagini dip. da Raffaello, &c.
[297] Heraclid. Pontic. de Allegoria Homeri, p. 443.