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COLUMBIAN HISTORICAL EXPOSITION AT MADRID. 



seventeenth, from those contained in the famous museum founded by Paulus Giovius in 



his country seat at Como, precisely on the spot where Pliny, the younger, had his villa.&quot; 



According to Carderera the Giovian portrait was also copied for Don Pedro de 



Toledo, Fifth Marquis of Villa- 

 franca, in 1601. It has the same 

 features as the Capriolo. 



In a German translation of 

 Washington Irving s Life of Co 

 lumbus appears a quaint represen 

 tation of the admiral in chains. 



No. 19. THE ROUEN PORTRAIT. 



In the museum at Rouen, France, 

 there used to be two alleged pic 

 tures of Columbus, side by side, 

 but as unlike as it is possible for 

 two portraits of t.he same person 

 to be, and the contrast was very 

 amusing. In one the hair is gray 

 and thin, and the flesh is pallid, 

 almost livid. It is a modern can 

 vas, presented to the city in 1851 

 by Paul Le Carpentier, who 

 painted it in 1835 from the Rincon 

 in the Queen s library at Madrid, 

 and inscribed it, &quot; Columbus Ly- 

 gur novi orbio Repertor.&quot; A note 

 on the back says: &quot;This portrait 

 was copied in wax in 1835 from the 

 original portrait of Sebastian del 

 Piombo, which formed a part of the 



collection of the Escurial, and which is attributed by some to Antonio del Rincoii.&quot; 

 The other portrait was a sharp and vigorous piece of work, with black hair, black 



eyes, considerable color, and expressive features. It 



points a finger to a sphere resting upon a table with 



some books. It is attributed both to Velasquez and to 



Ribera, and figures in the catalogue as the work of the 



first-named artist. Within recent years the catalogue 



has been corrected, so that the picture no longer pre 

 tends to be a portrait of Columbus, but as a &quot;Portrait 



of a man disserting on a globe. 



No. 20. THE STUPPI PORTRAIT. 



Undoubtedly a copy in oil of the Capriolo by G. 

 Stuppi, engraved for Iconographia di Uomini Sommi 

 nelle Scienze e nelle Arti Italiaue, Napoli, 1854. 



No. 21. THE FONTAINE PORTRAIT. 



Painted by J. M. Fontaine, and engraved by P. 

 Columbo, Duke de Veragua. Published by Danlos. 

 Evidently a copy of the ministry of marine portrait, 

 with a more cheerful expression. 



No. 22. THE FARMER PORTRAIT. 



The portrait which has been longest in America hangs in the New York State 

 library, in the capitol at Albany. It was presented to the State in 1784 by Mrs. 

 Maria Farmer, a granddaughter of Jacob Leister, governor of the province of New&quot; 



THE HAVANA. 

 See page 231. 



THE YOUTH OF COLUMBUS. 



From an old print ( Page 231. ) 



