Current knowledge
© Photographic Archive Museo Nacional del Prado 420
Titian
Venus with an Organist and a Dog
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.
Van der Doort 1639
Titian
Naked Woman, lying on her velvet gown with a little dog, gentleman sitting in a black habit with a sword at his side, playing the organ in a landscape
Sale Inventory c.1649-51
Walpole Society reference (1972):