An oil painting known as ‘The Allegory of Alfonso D'Avalos’. A man in armour, centre, facing left but with his head turned to front, places his right hand on the breast of the woman seated at the left holding a globe. In the right foreground is Cupid, carrying a bundle of arrows. Behind him are two women, one carrying a basket over her head. Titian’s original work is not now believed to represent Alfonso D’Avalos, Marchese del Vasto, but the exact meaning of the allegory has not been agreed. This is one of two copies in the Royal Collection after an original in the Louvre, Paris. The original was in the collection of Charles I, and the copies may also have been in the Royal Collection but their early history is easily confused. This copy was probably made by Michael Cross, or Miguel de la Cruz, a copyist working for Charles I in Spain.