Van der Doort c.1639
WS 82, № 33
Andrea Mantegna
Madonna and Child, St John and six female saints sitting, St Christopher carrying Christ over the water and St George on horseback with a spear and the Dragon in the landscape background, Sts Francis, Jerome and Domenic high on a rock
Walpole Society reference (1960):
Measurements (Van der Doort):
1ft 9in x 1ft 5in (53.3 x 43.2cm)
Light:
light from the left
Frame:
ebony joined in another wooden
Provenance:
Mantua piece
Gift / Exchange / Bought / Inherited:
bought
Hang notes:
pair to no. 27
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. 10
Identification certainty:
Identified
Sale Inventory c.1649-51