Van der Doort c.1639

Polidoro

landscape, some buildings with a fountain and two little full-length figures (Building wherein Cupid lies viewed by Psyche)

Walpole Society reference (1960): 
WS 42, № 4
Measurements (Van der Doort): 
5ft 2in x 5ft 7in (157.5 x 170.2cm)
Medium: 
8th of the pieces in fresco [watercolours - see MS. Ash 1514, f. 194], on panel
Light: 
light from the right
Provenance: 
10th of the 23 Italian collection pictures the King bought from William Frizell
Gift / Exchange / Bought / Inherited: 
bought
Room description extended: 
towards the Orchard
Original Manuscript page number: 
MS. Ash. 1514, f. 57 and V&A MS f. 8, no 1 (WS 203)
Charles II inventory c1666: 
Whitehall, no 472, 160 x 170
Interpreting the text: 
The text in brackets comes from V&A Manuscript
Identification certainty: 
Identified
Sale Inventory c.1649-51

Polidoro da Caravaggio