Van der Doort c.1639

Giulio Romano

Fifith, deceased Roman Emperor lying on a Pile of Wood, his servants cut and stab themselves desiring not to live after their majesty dies

Walpole Society reference (1960): 
WS 194, № 5
Provenance: 
Mantua piece
Gift / Exchange / Bought / Inherited: 
bought
Location: 
Greenwich House
Room description extended: 
Queen's Withdrawing Chamber, 6 pictures
Charles II inventory c1666: 
Whitehall, no 254, 119 x 109
Identification certainty: 
destroyed
Sale Inventory c.1649-51

Giulio Romano