Perhaps the most beautiful or at any rate the most idiosyncratic thing in the picture before us is its lovely profusion of wayside flowers.

These come out but poorly in the photograph, but in the painting they are exquisite both in form and in detail.

Luca painted them as if he loved them.

(There is a hint of the same thoughtful care in the flowers in No.

1133, by Luca, in our National Gallery; but these at Florence are the best.) No.