Godfried Schalcken

Young Woman with Pigeons (Venus?)



Godfried Schalcken - Young Woman with Pigeons (Venus?)



Godfried Schalcken
Young Woman with Pigeons (Venus?)
c. 1680-85
16.7 x 21.5 cm
Oil on panel
Mauritshuis, The Hague


Provenance

Govert van Slingelandt, The Hague, in or before 1752-1767
his widow, Agatha Huydecoper, The Hague, 1767-1768
Van Slingelandt sale, The Hague, 18 May 1768 (Lugt 1683), nr. 38 (as ‘Venus avec ses Colombes’)
the entire collection sold to Prince William V
Prince William V, The Hague, 1768-1795
confiscated by the French, transferred to the Muséum central des arts/Musée Napoléon (Musée du Louvre), Paris, 1795-1815 (as by ‘Verkolié’)
Royal Picture Gallery, housed in the Prince William V Gallery, The Hague, 1816
transferred to the Mauritshuis, 1822
exhibited in the Prince William V Gallery, The Hague, since 2010

External links

RKD 250162
Mauritshuis, The Hague Accession number 162

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