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PAINTINGS 
1252. LEONARDO DA VINCI, b. at Vinci in Valdarno near 
Florence in 1452, d. 1519. 
The Adoration of the Magi. A large sketch in black 
and white. The painting was to have been executed 
by commission of the monks of St. Donato at Scopeto 
(1480). This sketch was brought to this Gallery from 
the store-rooms of the Royal Palace in 1794. 
On 
wood. Small size fig. 
H. m. 2,20 — L. m. 2,40. 
71. ANTONIO and PIERO DEL POLLAIOLO. 
Temperance. A woman sitting on a bench and hol- 
ding with her right hand a golden vessel from which 
she pours out water into a golden vase placed on her 
left knee. — On wood. Life size. 
H. m. 1,64 — L. m. 0,85. 
1288. LEONARDO DA VINCI. 
The Annunciution. Several art-critics think this 
painting to be one of Leonardo’s earliest works, others 
attribuite it to Rodolfo del Ghirlandaio or to Lorenzo 
di Credi. It was once in the sacristy of the church of 
Monte Oliveto, near Florence, and was brought into this 
Gallery in 1867. — On wood. Small size fig. 
H. m. 0,99 — L. m. 2,18. 
65. ROSSELLI Cosimo, of Florence. 
The Adoration of the Magi. This picture contains 
several portraits, among which, according to Vasari is 
that of Donato Acciajoli. 
Although Lanzi in his History of Painting mentions 
this picture as existing in this Gallery yet it remained 
hidden and ignored, until 1857, among ihe paintings 
which were kept, excluded from the right of the public, 
in the Corridor, then shut and unfrequented, which 
unites the Palazzo Vecchio with the Pitti Palace, now 
the Uffizi and the Pitti Galleries. Vasari attributes this 
work to Pesello, but Senator Morelli, in his book: Le 
opere dei Maestri Italiani nelle Gallerie di Monaco, 
Dresda e Berlino, Bologna, 1886, p. 353, thinks it to 
be rather the work of Cosimo Rosselli. — On wood. 
Half life size. 
H. m. 1,04 — L. m. 2,23.