THE PROPERTY OF A GENTLEMAN
Godfried Schalcken (1643-1706)
A Gentleman offering a Lady a Ring in a candlelit Bedroom
Details
Godfried Schalcken (1643-1706)
A Gentleman offering a Lady a Ring in a candlelit Bedroom
oil on panel
14 x 11½in. (37.2 x 29.2cm.)
A Gentleman offering a Lady a Ring in a candlelit Bedroom
oil on panel
14 x 11½in. (37.2 x 29.2cm.)
Provenance
Philippe, duc d'Orléans (le Régent), and by descent through Louis, Duc d'Orléans to
Philippe (Égalité), duc d'Orléans, by whom sold with all the Flemish, Dutch and German paintings from the Orléans Collection to a syndicate consisting of George, Lord Kinnaird, William Morland and Mr. Hammersley and imported by its agent Thomas Moore Slade, 1792; exhibited for sale by private contract at no. 125 Pall Mall, April-mid June 1793, no. 88.
Reginald Cholmondeley, Condover Hall, Shrewsbury; Christie's, 6 March 1897, lot 53 (50gns. to Martin Colnaghi).
with Colnaghi, London, from whom purchased by the grand-father of the present owner.
Philippe (Égalité), duc d'Orléans, by whom sold with all the Flemish, Dutch and German paintings from the Orléans Collection to a syndicate consisting of George, Lord Kinnaird, William Morland and Mr. Hammersley and imported by its agent Thomas Moore Slade, 1792; exhibited for sale by private contract at no. 125 Pall Mall, April-mid June 1793, no. 88.
Reginald Cholmondeley, Condover Hall, Shrewsbury; Christie's, 6 March 1897, lot 53 (50gns. to Martin Colnaghi).
with Colnaghi, London, from whom purchased by the grand-father of the present owner.
Literature
Dubois de Saint-Gelais, Description des Tableaux du Palais-Royal, Paris, 1727, p. 440.
J. Couché, La Galerie du Palais-Royal, gravée d'après les tableaux des différentes écoles qui la composent, III, 1786.
J. Smith, A Catalogue Raisonné, etc., IV, London, 1833, p. 278, no. 46.
C. Blanc, Histoire des Peintres de toutes les Ecoles, Paris, 1861, II, p. 8.
C. Hofstede de Groot, A Catalogue Raisonné, etc., V, London, 1913, p. 385, no. 260.
C. Stryienski, La Galerie du Régent Philippe, duc d'Orléans, Paris, 1913, p. 185, no. 436, incorrectly described as part of the Wynn Ellis Bequest to the National Gallery, London.
T. Beherman, Godfried Schalcken, Brussels, 1988, p. 329, no. 247, as untraced and only known from the engraving.
J. Couché, La Galerie du Palais-Royal, gravée d'après les tableaux des différentes écoles qui la composent, III, 1786.
J. Smith, A Catalogue Raisonné, etc., IV, London, 1833, p. 278, no. 46.
C. Blanc, Histoire des Peintres de toutes les Ecoles, Paris, 1861, II, p. 8.
C. Hofstede de Groot, A Catalogue Raisonné, etc., V, London, 1913, p. 385, no. 260.
C. Stryienski, La Galerie du Régent Philippe, duc d'Orléans, Paris, 1913, p. 185, no. 436, incorrectly described as part of the Wynn Ellis Bequest to the National Gallery, London.
T. Beherman, Godfried Schalcken, Brussels, 1988, p. 329, no. 247, as untraced and only known from the engraving.
Engraved
Mondet and Viel, as 'La Bague' (illustrated in Beherman, op. cit., p. 328).