Mary Magdalen

Note that the work cited here is only a possible match with the seventeenth-century record

Van der Doort c.1639

said to be Moretto da Brescia [Alessandro Moretto]

Lamenting woman stooping wrapped in white linen (Magdalen, half-length life-size)

Walpole Society reference (1960): 
WS 44, № 11
Measurements (Van der Doort): 
3ft 2in x 2ft 9in (96.5 x 83.8cm)
Light: 
light from the right
Frame: 
all-over gilded frame
Provenance: 
12th of the 23 Italian collection pictures your majesty bought from William Frizell
Gift / Exchange / Bought / Inherited: 
bought
Room description extended: 
towards the Orchard
Original Manuscript page number: 
MS. Ash. 1514, f. 58 and V&A MS f. 9, no 3 (WS 203)
Interpreting the text: 
Text in brackets comes from the V&A Manuscript
Identification certainty: 
Possible