Unidentified
"By Giambologna", annotation added by Horace Walpole to the corresponding entry in his copy of George Vertue, Catalogue and Description of King Charles I's Capital Collection.. (1757) in the Surveyor's office, St James's Palace
Van der Doort c.1639
WS 96, № 34
(Giovanni Bologna)
Naked (sleeping) Woman lying on her back with a Satyr (peeping at her)
Walpole Society reference (1960):
Measurements (Van der Doort):
8in x 0in (20.3cm high)
Medium:
bronze
Provenance:
a Dutch Merchant
Gift / Exchange / Bought / Inherited:
gift
Location:
Room description extended:
Your Majesty's statues placed round about the Cabinet Room; 36 including 16 of the 18 little statues which came to your majesty by the decease of Prince Henry; the other 2 are in the Chair Room
Original Manuscript page number:
Windsor MS., f. 29 and V&A MS, f. 44, no 33 (WS 212) and MS. Ash. 1514. F. 99
Interpreting the text:
The text in brackets comes from the V&A and Ashmolean Manuscripts
Identification certainty:
Unknown
Sale Inventory c.1649-51