Danae and Jupiter
This lost work is recorded in the National Trust version, cited here
Van der Doort c.1639
WS 85, № 47
Rottenhammer
Danae, lying on her bed with a red curtain and Cupid and old woman receiving the golden rain (one full and two half-length figures)
Walpole Society reference (1960):
Measurements (Van der Doort):
7½in x 11in (19 x 27.9cm)
Light:
light from the left
Provenance:
Lord Ancrum
Gift / Exchange / Bought / Inherited:
gift
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. 14 and V&A MS, f. 33, no 51 (WS 210)
Interpreting the text:
The text in brackets comes from the V&A Manuscript
Identification certainty:
Version of
Sale Inventory c.1649-51