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For many highly ingenious interpretations of Lotto's portraits and a sustained analysis of his art generally, Mr. Bernard Berenson's Lorenzo Lotto should be consulted. See also M. Emile Michel's article, "Les Portraits de Lorenzo Lotto," in the Gazette des Beaux Arts, 1896, vol. i. Life and Times of Titian, vol. i. p. 29. Die Galerien zu München und Dresden, p. 75.

"Eh, sacredieu!" he cried, shaking his fist in Müller's face, "I've not done with you yet, diable de galérien!" Whereupon there burst forth a general roar a roar like the "inextinguishable laughter" of Olympus. "Tiens!" said Müller, "his majesty speaks French almost as well as I speak Ashantee!" "Bourreau! Brigand! Assassin!" shrieked his Ferocity, as his friends hustled him off the stage.

I immediately ordered a bottle of Burgundy, and filling the large goblet before him, said, with much respect, "A votre bonne voyage, Monsier le Courier." To this he at once replied, by taking off his cap and bowing politely as he drank off the wine. "Have we any runaway felon or a stray galerien among us?" said I, laughingly, "that they are going to search us?"

I immediately ordered a bottle of Burgundy, and filling the large goblet before him, said, with much respect, "A votre bonne voyage, Monsier le Courier." To this he at once replied, by taking off his cap and bowing politely as he drank off the wine. "Have we any runaway felon or a stray galerien among us?" said I, laughingly, "that they are going to search us?"

It shows the painter admirably in his purely Giorgionesque phase, the authentic date bearing witness that it was painted during the lifetime of the Castelfranco master. Die Galerien zu München und Dresden, p. 74.