St John the Baptist
The Holbein Erasmus is now Louvre 1345.
It is a little unclear whether the light description is meant to refer to the Leonardo or the exchanged Titian
Van der Doort c.1639
WS 89, № 71
Leonardo da Vinci
St John the Baptist, with his right finger pointing upwards, his left hand at his breast holding a cane cross, the arm and hand damaged by cleaning before it came to your majesty, life-size half-length
Walpole Society reference (1960):
Measurements (Van der Doort):
2ft 4in x 1ft 10½in (71.1 x 57.1cm)
Medium:
panel
Light:
light from the left
Frame:
black ebony frame
Provenance:
sent to your Majesty from France as a present by Monsieur de Liancourt, one of the French King's Bedchamber ; in return for two paintings
Gift / Exchange / Bought / Inherited:
exchanged
Notes:
The two paintings your majesty gave in exchange were Holbein, Erasmus, profile looking down from the Cabinet Room [Louvre 1345] and Titian, Madonna, Child and St John the Baptist, life-size half-length figures, from the Middle Privy Lodging [untraced] in a carved gilded frame, which had come from Lord Carlisle who had it from John Donne
Location:
Room description extended:
By your majesty's especially command your pictures and rarities which you had kept at St James's in the Cabinet Room were transported and brought to Whitehall into the Privy Gallery in your Majesty's newly-erected Cabinet Room, whereof the particulars as well of the said rarities from St James's as also other Pictures medals agates or the like since by Your Majesty thereunto augmented, as by the number and bigness particularly signified doth appear as followeth
Original Manuscript page number:
Windsor MS., f. 19
Identification certainty:
Identified
Sale Inventory c.1649-51