Venus and Cupid

Exchanged for work by "Balthasar de Cane" believed to be Jan van Eyck, Dresden Triptych, 33 x 14, 33 x 28, 33 x 14, Dresden Gemäldegalerie AM-799-PS01 which is WS 154, no 2

Sale Inventory c.1649-51

Palma

Naked Venus, full-length, sitting and Cupid above her head, full-length

Walpole Society reference (1972): 
WS 302, №63
Location: 
Pictures now remaining in Somerset House in the custody of Mr Henry Browne September 1649 that came from Whitehall and St James's
Appraisal: 
15-0-0
Sold to: 
Col Hutchinson
Sale date: 
30/10/1649
Appears in Charles II c1666: 
Whitehall, no 477, 157 x 117
Identification certainty: 
Identified