Note 291 — AN ANSWER TO THE FOREGOING LETTER, AND A further Explication of the Subject.
Henry Fuseli translation
Baldinucci, Notiz. de’ P. d. D. P. 118. Argenville seems not to have understood the word, Ciliegia: he saw that it should be a symbol of spring, and changed the cherry to a butterfly; the chief object of the picture he omits, and talks only of the girl.