Van der Doort c.1639

Andrea Mantegna

Death of the Virgin, apostles around with white lighted candles in their hands, a landscape with Mantua on the lake with a bridge towards the town

Walpole Society reference (1960): 
WS 81, № 27
Measurements (Van der Doort): 
1ft 9in x 1ft 4½in (53.3 x 41.9cm)
Light: 
light from the right
Frame: 
little black ebony wooden frame
Provenance: 
Mantua piece
Gift / Exchange / Bought / Inherited: 
bought
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. 9
Identification certainty: 
Identified
Sale Inventory c.1649-51