Venus and Adonis
Original owned by Earl of Arundel today unidentified or lost
Van der Doort c.1639
WS 104, № 6
Peter Oliver after a Titian original oil in the Earl of Arundel's Collection
Venus and Adonis, and Cupid with some dogs, dated 1631. The principal oil painting belongs to Lord Arundel
Walpole Society reference (1960):
Light:
light from the [-]
Provenance:
(presented by Duke of Lennox, Mr Triforis and Mr Endymion Porter)
Gift / Exchange / Bought / Inherited:
Gift [?]
Notes:
This work delivered in November 1639 (to the King’s hands in the Cabinet and again by the King's own hand to Richard Gibson, the 4th Earl of Pembroke's dwarf, to be copied and then to restore it again to the Cabinet for the King’s use) (presented by Mr Triforis and Endymion Porter in the presence of the Duke of Lennox)
Hang notes:
6th 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 MS. Ash. 1514, f. 116
Interpreting the text:
Text in brackets from the Ashmolean MS.
Identification certainty:
Identified
Sale Inventory c.1649-51