The woman’s head with long flowing brown hair, the child with fair hair, blue background, gold border, rectangular ground, 4.5cm, rectangular dark-stained fruitwood veneer frame.
Provenance: Elizabeth, Countess of Devonshire, nee Cecil, her will, proved 13th November 1690 (‘A picture of two heads of Venus and Cupid’), by whom given to her daughter, Anne, Countess of Exeter; Thence by descent.