Gaston le Foix and Page
Note that the work cited in Castle Howard is only a possible match with the seventheenth-century record. The work is clearly similar to Giorgione and School, Portrait of a Warrior and his Groom, Uffizi Gallery 911, 90 x 73 and a Giorgione in the Accademia.
There is also a Gaston Le Foix recorded at Sale inventory WS 203, no 296
Van der Doort c.1639
WS 57, № 85
Man with his page putting on his armour, fitting it at his right shoulder, page in white and red habit
Walpole Society reference (1960):
Measurements (Van der Doort):
2ft 5in x 2ft 1in (73.7 x 63.5cm)
Frame:
wooden gilded frame
Provenance:
from Colonel Lashley [Leslie?], brought from Germany by Earl of Arundel [probably Count/Colonel Leslie, Captain of the King of Hungary's Guard, friendly with Arundel when in Germany 1636]
Gift / Exchange / Bought / Inherited:
gift
Location:
Room description extended:
Towards the Orchard
Original Manuscript page number:
MS. Ash. 1514, f. 78
Charles II inventory c1666:
Whitehall, no. 190, 74 x 63.5
Identification certainty:
Possible
Sale Inventory c.1649-51