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RAPHAEL MENGS.' 43
tach them so carelessly, that they appear truly fic-
titious. Mercury is represented as a youth who
has not yet done growing, and of an innocent
character. That painting is undoubtedly ori-
ginal ; not only because it discovers the sovereign
excellence of Correggio, but also for a correction
sufficiently visible in the arm os Mercury, that
was originally covered with a blue cloth ; and
one distinguishes it, as the colour appears through
that which was afterwards laid over it. I men-
tion this circumstance because there exists ano-
ther similar in France, which has not this correc-
tion, and might be a copy, or a second. This
os the Duke of Alva was bought by one of his
ancestors at London, together with an assortment
of the famous Arazzi of Raphael, at the sale of
the furniture of the unhappy Charles I. after he
was beheaded.
In the grand vestry of the Escurial, is preserved
a painting on canvass, of figures three palms in.
height, and represents Christ with the Magdalen,
when he says to her, Noli me tangere. This is a
painting of the same style of that of the Madonna
and Child, which is at Florence, and of which I
have already given the description.
tach them so carelessly, that they appear truly fic-
titious. Mercury is represented as a youth who
has not yet done growing, and of an innocent
character. That painting is undoubtedly ori-
ginal ; not only because it discovers the sovereign
excellence of Correggio, but also for a correction
sufficiently visible in the arm os Mercury, that
was originally covered with a blue cloth ; and
one distinguishes it, as the colour appears through
that which was afterwards laid over it. I men-
tion this circumstance because there exists ano-
ther similar in France, which has not this correc-
tion, and might be a copy, or a second. This
os the Duke of Alva was bought by one of his
ancestors at London, together with an assortment
of the famous Arazzi of Raphael, at the sale of
the furniture of the unhappy Charles I. after he
was beheaded.
In the grand vestry of the Escurial, is preserved
a painting on canvass, of figures three palms in.
height, and represents Christ with the Magdalen,
when he says to her, Noli me tangere. This is a
painting of the same style of that of the Madonna
and Child, which is at Florence, and of which I
have already given the description.