Venetia, Lady Digby, on her Deathbed British Catalogued by Bodmer among works

Catalogued by Bodmer among works attributed to LodovicoCarracci or from his workshop

Pluto carries Proserpine to the underworld

The subject is from Matthew II

keeper of the Royal Treasury

a more courtly and decorative style emerged

Venetia, Lady Digby, on her Deathbed British Catalogued by Bodmer among worksVenetia Stanley (1600 33) was famous for her dazzling beauty and notorious for the sexual licence of her youth, something not usually tolerated in English seventeenth century high society. Sir Kenelm Digby, a poet and scientist of some distinction, fell so completely in love with her that in 1625 he married her, in secret and against the wishes of his family. When Lady Digby died unexpectedly in her sleep, during the night of 30 April 1633, Sir Kenelm