Unidentified

"I believe this is the picture called Nymphs Bathing, now in the collection of the Duke of Orleans", 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.

This work was first listed by Van der Doort as no. 10 in the Long Gallery; then crossed out and replaced there by van Dyck's Cupid and Pysche and added here

Sale Inventory c.1649-51

Giulio Romano

Neptune in a shell drawn by sea-horses

Walpole Society reference (1972): 
WS 314, №257
Appraisal: 
60-0-0
Sold to: 
Hunt and Bass
Sale date: 
01/03/1652 or 53
Identification certainty: 
Unknown