Van der Doort c.1639
WS 80, № 19
Luca Cambiaso
Madonna and Christ sucking her right breast, and Joseph (leaning on his left hand and looking over his left shoulder), part of a red curtain, less-than-life-size half-length figures
Walpole Society reference (1960):
Measurements (Van der Doort):
2ft 0in x 1ft 7in (61 x 48.3cm)
Light:
light from the right
Frame:
old wooden carved frame with corners adorned with silver
Provenance:
Mantua piece
Gift / Exchange / Bought / Inherited:
bought
Notes:
piece tarnished black by mercury, by which mercury all your Majesty's Mantua pictures were generally spoiled
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. 7 and V&A MS, f. 27, no 23 (WS 208)
Interpreting the text:
The text in brackets comes from the V&A Manuscript
Identification certainty:
Unknown
Sale Inventory c.1649-51