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
Sale Inventory c.1649-51
WS 314, №257
Giulio Romano
Neptune in a shell drawn by sea-horses
Walpole Society reference (1972):
Appraisal:
60-0-0
Sold to:
Hunt and Bass
Sale date:
01/03/1652 or 53
Identification certainty:
Unknown