Banqueting House Ceiling, first design for the middle section, light from the left
Record possibly describing a different modello to the one in the Tate cited here (see G. Martin, The Ceiling Decoration of the Banqueting Hall, Corpus Rubeniarum, 2005). "This was at Houghton and is now in Russia": added by Horace Walpole in his copy of George Vertue, Catalogue and Description of King Charles I's Capital Collection.. (1757) in the Surveyor's office, St James's Palace
Van der Doort c.1639
WS 91, № 77
Sir Peter Paul Rubens
The Apotheosis of James I and Other Studies: Multiple Sketch for the Banqueting House Ceiling, Whitehall
Walpole Society reference (1960):
Measurements (Van der Doort):
3ft ½in x 1ft 10in (92.7 x 55.9cm)
Medium:
canvas
Light:
light from the left
Frame:
wooden gilded frame
Provenance:
sent by Rubens to your Majesty for approval
Gift / Exchange / Bought / Inherited:
gift
Hang notes:
in the ceiling above the table [table in the centre of the room]
Location:
Room description extended:
By your majesty's especially command your pictures and rarities which you had kept at St James's in the Cabinet Room were transported and brought to Whitehall into the Privy Gallery in your Majesty's newly-erected Cabinet Room, whereof the particulars as well of the said rarities from St James's as also other Pictures medals agates or the like since by Your Majesty thereunto augmented, as by the number and bigness particularly signified doth appear as followeth
Original Manuscript page number:
Windsor MS., f. 20
Identification certainty:
Identified