The Manny Davidson Collection: A Life in Treasures and Benevolence - Online Sale

Follower of Godfried Schalcken

A young man studying a bust by candlelight

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November 7, 10:27 AM GMT

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2,500 - 3,500 EUR

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Follower of Godfried Schalcken

A young man studying a bust by candlelight

oil on oak panel

43.1 x 32.1 cm.; 17 x 12⅝ in.

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Anonymous sale, London, Christie's, 12 December 1996, lot 240;

Where acquired.

This painting relates closely to Schalcken's work – of very comparable dimensions, but a rounded top – today in the Staatliche Kunstsammlungen, Dresden.¹ Dr Eddy Schavemaker dates the Dresden picture to 1670–75.²

¹ Inv. no. 1789; oil on oak panel, 44.5 x 31 cm.; https://skd-online-collection.skd.museum/Details/Index/515301.

² E. Schavemaker, in Schalcken: Gemalte Verführung, A.K. Sevcik (ed.), exh. cat., Cologne 2015, pp. 120–22, no. 13, reproduced in colour.

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