Current knowledge

Titian

Venus with an Organist and a Dog

© Photographic Archive Museo Nacional del Prado 420
Current measurements: 
150.2cm x 218.2cm
Date: 
c.1555

This sizeable work by Titian is a focal point for the room; its blatant, playful eroticism would have made quite a statement to the few who were allowed access here. The inventory entry for this painting lacks any pre-Charles I provenance and other versions exist such as that in the Fitzwilliam Museum.

Sale Inventory c.1649-51
Walpole Society reference (1972):