B-5. KNIGHTS AT A TOURNAMENT.
GIOTTO DI BONDONE.
(BRYAN COLLECTION)
Very few Raphaels of this period exist. Those which are in the Vatican and the Louvre, show, in style and handling, an exact similarity to these pictures, which is absolutely conclusive. The donor wishes it to be understood, that, in his opinion, and in that of some of the accomplished and practised experts in Europe, there is not the slightest doubt of the authenticity of these pictures. Only the inexperienced and the uncultivated fail to trace in them the pencil of the divine Raphael.
(Bryan Collection.)
B-26. Madonna and Child. (28X21½.) Copy from Raphael.
An old and admirably executed copy of the Bridgewater Madonna.
(Bryan Collection.)
B-27. Dance of Cupids. (7X10.) Copy from Raphael.
Nine Cupids dance in a ring. On the left, one plays upon double pipes; on the right, another sits upon the ground. This copy is very fine, as it may well be, having been made by no less distinguished an artist than Sassoferrato himself.
(Bryan Collection.)
B-28. St. George, and St. Anthony of Padua. (47X22½.) Gaudenzio Ferrari.