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COLUMBIAN HISTORICAL EXPOSITION AT MADRID. 



No. 60. THE FLAMENG PORTRAIT (page 237). 



A picture painted by Leopold Flameng, a French artist, for the Marquis de Belloy, 

 and purely fanciful. The collection, of which this is an example, isownedbyPaulDuc- 

 roque, Paris. The entire collection were used as illustrations for Belloy s Columbus. 



No. 61. THE HENGS PORTRAIT 



An alleged portrait of Columbus, in oil, on can 

 vas of small size, hangs in the public library at 

 Concord, Mass., but it bears 110 resemblance to 

 the traditional appearance of Columbus, and is 

 unlike any other representation of him. It was 

 presented to the library, in 1873, by Mr. A. P. 

 Chamberlaine, of Concord, and is a copy, by 

 Raphael Mengs, of an alleged Spanish portrait 

 said to be by Titian. It was formerly in the col 

 lection of Letitia Bonaparte, Napoleon s mother 

 &quot;Madame Mere&quot; at Rome, and was purchased 

 by Mr. Chamberlaine after her death. There is 

 a legend that Mengs, the artist, left a record 

 somewhere that he made a copy of a portrait of 

 Columbus, by Titian, Avith but a single change 

 THE MENGS. in it the substitution of an admiral s cloak for 



the armor which Titian had painted; but this 



record has never been found, nor is there any evidence that Titian and Columbus 

 ever met, or that the former ever painted a portrait of the great admiral. 



No. 62. THE GIACOMO ZATTA PICTURE. 



Feuilett De Conches, the French critic, describes a portrait of Columbus by Giacomo 

 Zatta, or Latta, as &quot; with the hair in disorder, the nose in air, the neck stretched, 

 the shirt collar down, and dressed in the costume of 1792.&quot; Nothing is known 

 about the artist or where the original can be found. 



No. 63. THE PILOTY PICTURE. 



A picture of Columbus on the deck of his vessel, by 

 Piloty, is in the gallery of Count von Krack, Munich. 



THE PTOLEMY WOODCUT. 



In the Venetian edition of the Cosmographia of 

 Claudius Ptolemy, published in 1548, appears a cu 

 rious picture that is claimed to represent Columbus, 

 but the same picture had previously appeared in 

 other publications over the title of &quot;An Astronomer.&quot; 



No. 64. THE THEVET ENGRAVING 



Andre Thevet, in his Portraits et Vies des Homines 

 Illustres, which was first published in Paris in 1584, 

 gives us a Columbus of a solemn type that looks 

 more like an astrologer of the middle ages than 

 a seaman. It is a rude woodcut and has been 



frequently copied. It appears in N. D. Clerck s Tooneal der Beroemder Hertogen, 

 published at Delft in 1617; in North s edition of Plutarch s Lives, published at Cam 

 bridge in 1676; in Isaac Bullart s Academic des Sciences et des Arts, published at 

 Brussels in 1682, and in several other works of later date. Clerck says that Thevet 

 obtained the portrait in Lisbon, and that it was painted by a Dutch artist w r hile 

 Columbus was living there. Thevet went to America with the Marquis de Villegag- 



