Venus Disrobing
This provocative work is now thought to be by an artist working after Titan. It was given to Charles I by the Duke of Buckingham in exchange for a Mantua picture. The work hung in exactly the same room in Charles II’s reign, possibly even above the same door. It remains in the Royal Collection.
Sale Inventory c.1649-51
WS 70, №32
Titian
Naked Woman putting on a smock
Walpole Society reference (1972):
Appraisal:
25-0-0
Sold to:
G Greene
Sale date:
23/10/1651
Appears in Charles II c1666:
Whitehall, no 183,181, 99 x 76
Identification certainty:
Identified