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
Van der Doort c.1639
WS 48, № 33
said to be Giulio Romano
Young Neptune (guiding his four sea-horses with a Trident) going through the sea
Walpole Society reference (1960):
Measurements (Van der Doort):
3ft 7in x 5ft 9in (109.2 x 175.3cm)
Frame:
blue gilded frame
Provenance:
Mantua piece [from earlier no 10 duplicate record]
Gift / Exchange / Bought / Inherited:
Bought
Hang notes:
above the chimney
Location:
Room description extended:
Towards the Orchard
Original Manuscript page number:
MS. Ash. 1514, f. 58 & f. 64 and V&A MS, f. 13, no 5 (WS 43 & 204)
Interpreting the text:
The text in brackets comes from the V&A Manuscript, also text taken from earlier struck through entry in the same room
Identification certainty:
Unknown
Sale Inventory c.1649-51