Old Master Drawings

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Lot 109
  • 109

Godfried Schalcken Made, near Breda 1643 - 1706 The Hague

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Description

  • Godfried Schalcken
  • a maid blowing on hot coals for a footwarmer
  • signed in red chalk: G.S.f.
  • red chalk

Provenance

Joseph Kederna, Wien (bears his mark on the verso)
Sale, Amsterdam, Sotheby's, 2 November 1987, lot 101
Sale, Amsterdam, Sotheby's, 22 November 1989, lot 142

Literature

Thierry Beherman, Godfried Schalcken, Paris 1988, pp.290-1, under no.196, illustrated fig. 196b, pp. 380-1, cat. no. D29.

Catalogue Note

This is a preparatory study for Schalcken's painting in Braunschweig, Herzog Anton Ulrich-Museum (see Beherman, loc. cit.).  The drawing is only slightly smaller than the painting, and may have acted as a cartoon for it.  The only significant differences are in the niche in the background, which is of a different shape.