Saturday, December 29, 2018

Painted Mythologies Collected by Charles I (1600-1649)

Jacopo Tintoretto
Nine Muses
1578
oil on canvas
(purchased by Charles I from the Gonzaga collection in Mantua -
sold in England after the King's execution, but recovered at the Restoration)
Royal Collection, Great Britain

Jacopo Tintoretto
Abduction of Helen
ca. 1578
oil on canvas
(purchased by Charles I from the Gonzaga collection in Mantua -
sold after the King's execution to agents for Philip IV of Spain)
Museo del Prado, Madrid

Giulio Romano and workshop
Birth of Diana and Apollo
ca. 1530-40
oil on canvas
(purchased by Charles I from the Gonzaga collection in Mantua)
Royal Collection, Great Britain

Correggio
Venus and Cupid with a Satyr
ca. 1528
oil on canvas
(purchased by Charles I from the Gonzaga collection in Mantua -
sold after the King's execution to agents for Cardinal Mazarin)
Musée du Louvre

Correggio
Venus with Mercury and Cupid
ca. 1525
oil on canvas
(purchased by Charles I from the Gonzaga collection in Mantua -
sold after the King's execution to agents from Spain,
though much later the picture was sold back into England)
National Gallery, London

Correggio
Allegory of Vice
ca. 1528-30
oil on canvas
(purchased by Charles I from the Gonzaga collection in Mantua -
sold after the King's execution to agents for Cardinal Mazarin)
Musée du Louvre

Battistello Caracciolo
Sleeping Cupid 
ca. 1618
oil on canvas
(purchased by Charles I from the Gonzaga collection in Mantua -
sold in England after the King's execution, but recovered at the Restoration)
Royal Collection, Great Britain

Orazio Gentileschi
Sibyl
ca. 1635-38
oil on canvas
(painted for Charles I during Gentileschi's English sojourn -
sold in England after the King's execution, but recovered at the Restoration)
Royal Collection, Great Britain

Orazio Gentileschi
Allegory of Peace and the Arts
ca. 1635-38
oil on canvas
(commissioned by Charles I for his consort Henrietta Maria
for the ceiling of the Great Hall in the Queen's House at Greenwich)
Royal Collection, Great Britain

Titian
Venus del Pardo, or, Jupiter and Antiope
ca. 1535-40
oil on canvas
(given to Charles I as Prince of Wales in 1623 during his visit to the Spanish court -
sold after the King's execution to agents for Cardinal Mazarin)
Musée du Louvre

Titian
Venus and Music
ca. 1550
oil on canvas
(purchased from a Venetian family by agents for Charles I -
sold after the King's execution to agents for Philip IV of Spain)
Museo del Prado, Madrid

Anonymous Italian copyist after Parmigianino
Cupid shaving his Bow
ca. 1550
oil on canvas
(acquired from an unknown source by Charles I)
Royal Collection, Great Britain

Gerrit van Honthorst
Apollo and Diana
1628
oil on canvas
(commissioned from the artist either by Charles I or by the Duke of Buckingham,
with portraits of Charles and Henrietta Maria as enthroned figures of Apollo and Diana,
while the Duke of Buckingham as Mercury, standing below, presents the nine Muses)
Royal Collection, Great Britain

Lambert Sustris
Diana and Actaeon
ca. 1530-69
oil on canvas
(acquired by Charles I from Sir Endymion Porter as a work by Giorgione)
Royal Collection, Great Britain

Anthony van Dyck
Cupid and Psyche
1639-40
oil on canvas
(painted while Van Dyck served as court artist to Charles I -
sold in England to Sir Peter Lely after the King's execution, but recovered at the Restoration)
Royal Collection, Great Britain