Footnotes

• PROVENANCE:
  Sale, Lempertz, Cologne, 25 November 2000, lot 1215
  Sale, Vuyst, Belgium, 5 October 2002, lot 519
  Sale, Bonhams, London, 10 December 2002, lot 315
  Sale, Beaux-Arts, Brussels, 3/4 December 2003, lot 1273
  Sale, Dorotheum, Vienna, 29 September 2004, lot 241
  Sale, Van Ham, Cologne, 17-19 November 2005, lot 1635
  
  In a letter dated 4 July 2001, Fred Meijer of the RKD confirms the attribution of the present painting to Godfried Schalcken and dates this work to the mid-1660s, issuing from the artist's apprenticeship years in Gerard Dou's workshop or a little later. Thus the style and composition show the strong influence of the Leiden School and in particular Gerard Dou and Pieter van Slingelandt. The central figure displays analogies with Schalcken's Lady with a bird of 1667 (see: T. Beherman, Godfried Schalcken (Maeght, 1988), no. 143, p. 236, ill.).

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Category: Fine Art / Old Master Paintings

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