Le Corrège. Correggio was a celebrated Italian painter

(1494-1534), “wbo displayed tbat grâce and general beauty and softness of effect, tbe combined excellences of design and color, witb taste and expression, for wbicb be is still unrivalled.” Note tbe Frencb babit of using tbe article witb bis name, as witb tbe naines of some otber Italian s : le Titien, le Tasse, VArioste ; ami witb tbe name of tbe Frencb painter wbose life was spent in Rome, — le Poussin.