Godfried Schalcken (1643-1706)

A young girl playing with her doll at a table, in an interior by candlelight

Details

Godfried Schalcken (1643-1706)
A young girl playing with her doll at a table, in an interior by candlelight
signed (strengthened) lower right G.cha.ck..
oil on panel
26.6 x 21.5 cm

Provenance

Prince de Conti; Sale, Muzier Remy Paris, 8 May 1777, lot 409, sold with pendant
Destouches; Sale, Lebrun Julliot Paris, 24 March 1794, lot 55 (265 Francs to Constantin)
With S. Nijstad, The Hague

Literature

J. Smith, A Catalogue Raisonné, etc., IV, 1833, no27
C. Hofstede de Groot, A Catalogue Raisonné, etc., V, 1912, no230, as a pendant to his no159, giving as a provenance: Randon de Boisset; Sale Remy Julliot Paris, February/March 1777
T. Beherman, Godfried Schalcken, 1988, p.327, no243, with ill., and with the Randon de Boisset provenance (see the above reference)

Lot Essay

As pointed out by T. Beherman, op.cit., p.327, the present lot was thought by C. Hofstede de Groot, using as evidence the Randon de Boisset Sale, to be the pendant to the picture of the musiclesson in the National Gallery, London (T. Beherman, op.cit., p.243, with ill.). However, this sale did not include either pictures by Schalcken.

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