Unidentified
Presumably the original, recorded as in the Pembroke collection, was a version of the Venus of Urbino
Van der Doort c.1639
WS 105, № 9
Peter Oliver after a Titian in the Earl of Pembroke's collection
Naked Venus, lying on her back (on a white sheet), with a women in miniature in the chamber behind kneeling to get things out of a chest, another servant woman enters with a pillow, dated 1638
Walpole Society reference (1960):
Measurements (Van der Doort):
6in x 9in (15.2 x 22.9cm)
Light:
light from the left
Notes:
([after this item] here…a place left for it for another piece also not delivered [?])
Hang notes:
9th of 10 limnings in double-shutting cases, under glass and under lock and key
Location:
Room description extended:
4th Book containing all your Majesty's well limned pieces, kept at the moment in cupboards in the newly erected Cabinet Room, Whitehall
Original Manuscript page number:
Windsor MS., f. 48 and V&A MS, f. 49, no 9 (WS 214) and MS. Ash. 1514, f. 117
Charles II inventory c1666:
Whitehall, no 445, 20 x 15
Interpreting the text:
Text in brackets from the V&A MS and MS Ash 1514
Identification certainty:
Unknown
Sale Inventory c.1649-51