Live Auction 13322Old Master Drawings and British Drawings and Watercolours
Attributed to Godfried Schalcken (Made 1643-1706 The Hague)
Lot 75

Attributed to Godfried Schalcken (Made 1643-1706 The Hague)

Portrait of a young man at half length

Closed7 December 2016

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GBP 1,250

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Attributed to Godfried Schalcken (Made 1643-1706 The Hague)
Portrait of a young man at half length
with inscription ‘G. Schalken.’ (recto) and with illegible inscription and with number '954.' (verso)
red and white chalk on buff paper, red chalk framing lines, the lower edge cut
9½ x 8 3/8 in. (24.2 x 21.4 cm.)

Dirk Vis Blokhuyzen; M. Dirk and A. Lamme, Rotterdam, 23-28 October 1871, lot 547 ('G. Schalcken [...] Portrait d'homme, A la sanguine').
B. Himmelheber (L. 4035), and by descent to the present owner.

Specialist note

Peter Schatborn, to whom we are grateful, has pointed out that a drawing by Schalcken with an inscription 'G. Schalcken.', apparently by the same hand as the inscription on this drawing, is in the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam (Inv. RP-T-1891-A-2458).