Van der Doort c.1639

Andrea Mantegna

Christ and the Adulteress, 4 almost life-size, half-length figures (6 figures)

Walpole Society reference (1960): 
WS 89, № 70
Measurements (Van der Doort): 
1ft 9½in x 2ft 4in (54.6 x 71.1cm)
Medium: 
watercolour
Light: 
light from the left
Provenance: 
Mantua piece
Gift / Exchange / Bought / Inherited: 
bought
Location: 
Cabinet Room
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. 18 and V&A MS, f. 38, no 75 (WS 211)
Charles II inventory c1666: 
Whitehall, no 547, 53 x 71
Interpreting the text: 
The text in brackets comes from the V&A Manuscript
Identification certainty: 
Identified
Sale Inventory c.1649-51