1266--by Bronzino, and the version of Leonardo's S.Anne at the Louvre by Andrea Salaino of Milan (1483 ?-1520 ?).

I like also the hints of tenderness of Bernardino Luini which break through the hardness of the Aurelio Luini picture--No.

204.

For the rest there are some sickly Guido Renis and Carlo Dolcis and a sentimental Guercino.
But the most popular works--on Sundays--are the two Gerard Honthorsts, and not without reason, for they are dramatic and bold and vivid, and there is a Baby in each that goes straight to the maternal heart.No.157 is perhaps the more satisfying, but I have more reason to remember the larger one--the Adoration of the Shepherds--for I watched a copyist produce a most remarkable replica of it in something under a week, on the same scale.

He was a short, swarthy man with a neck like a bull's, and he carried the task off with astonishing brio, never drawing a line, finishing each part as he came to it, and talking to a friend or an official the whole time.