Young Woman
The Judith by Raphael referred to in the provenance is probably the Judith and Holofernes by Andrea Mantegna in the National Gallery of Art Washington (no. 1942.9.42).
See WS 191, no 2 listed later in the van der Doort inventory MS. Ash. 1514 in conservation
Van der Doort c.1639
WS 79, № 15
Giovanni Bellini
Young Woman, modest, forward-full-faced, yellow hair (wreath on her head), left breast naked, smock over right breast, on a blue ground, half-life-size head
Walpole Society reference (1960):
Measurements (Van der Doort):
1ft 1in x 0ft 10in (33 x 25.4cm)
Medium:
thin panel set upon a new one
Light:
light from the left
Frame:
black ebony frame
Provenance:
Acquired when Prince of Wales, along with 'Two Children' by Parmigianino [no. 26 in this room], from the late 3rd Earl of Pembroke, Steward of the King's Household, in exchange for a little Raphael 'Judith'
Gift / Exchange / Bought / Inherited:
exchanged
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. 6 and V&A MS, f. 27, no 19 (WS 208)
Charles II inventory c1666:
Whitehall, no 374, 33 x 25
Interpreting the text:
The text in brackets comes from the V&A Manuscript
Identification certainty:
Identified