The Holy Family with St Elizabeth and little St John the Baptist
The size discrepancy might be explained by the work's unusual original shape
Van der Doort c.1639
WS 81, № 28
Garofalo
Madonna and Child (playing with) Joseph, St John with lamb in his arms, (John and St Ann standing behind) in a landscape, (five) little full-length figures
Walpole Society reference (1960):
Measurements (Van der Doort):
1ft 3in x 0ft 11in (38.1 x 27.9cm)
Light:
light from the right
Frame:
arched wooden frame
Provenance:
Mantua piece
Gift / Exchange / Bought / Inherited:
bought
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. 9 and V&A MS, f. 29, no 32 (WS 209)
Interpreting the text:
The text in brackets comes from the V&A Manuscript
Identification certainty:
Identified
Sale Inventory c.1649-51