Godfried Schalcken

Viewing art by candle light



Godfried Schalcken - Viewing art by candle light



Godfried Schalcken
Viewing art by candle light
c. 1675-80
44 x 35 cm
Oil on canvas
The Leiden Collection, New York


Literature

Wayne Franits, Dutch Seventeenth-Century Genre Painting, New Haven, 2004, fig. 227
Anja K. Sevcik (ed.), Schalcken, Belser, 2015, fig. 43



Provenance

private collection
sale, Christie’s, London, 18 April 1832, no. 57, to Pennell
Giles Sebright, Bart
his sale, Christie’s, London, 2 July 1937, no. 130
private collection
sale, Christie’s, London, 4 March 1938, no. 66
with Galerie Lingenauber, Düsseldorf, by 1988
with Galerie Edel, Cologne, 1988
private collection
sale, Hampel Fine Art Auctions, 8 December 2006, no. 310
with Salomon Lilian, Amsterdam, 2006
from whom acquired by the present owner in 2006

External links

Leiden Collection, New York Accession number GS-103

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Godfried Schalcken Allegory to the peace of Nijmegen
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Godfried Schalcken Girl eating an Apple
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Godfried Schalcken Maria Magdalena
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Godfried Schalcken Portrait of Johan Hermansz. Hallincq
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1692

Godfried Schalcken Young Woman before a Mirror
Young Woman before a Mirror
c. 1670