Van der Doort c.1639
WS 79, № 17
Thought to be Schiavone or some such Italian master
Madonna and Christ, playing with Joseph at the (his) left side in a landscape (three little full-length figures)
Walpole Society reference (1960):
Measurements (Van der Doort):
1ft 2in x 1ft 0in (35.6 x 30.5cm)
Light:
light from the left
Frame:
black 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. 6 and V&A MS, f. 27, no 21 (WS 208)
Interpreting the text:
The text in brackets comes from the V&A Manuscript
Identification certainty:
Unknown