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Godfried Schalcken

Young Man in Profile Holding a Silver Cup, Possibly Saint John the Evangelist

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February 7, 03:00 PM GMT

Estimate

80,000 - 120,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Godfried Schalcken

Made 1643 - 1706 The Hague

Young Man in Profile Holding a Silver Cup, Possibly Saint John the Evangelist


signed lower right: G. Schalcken

inscribed with inventory number lower left: 272 

oil on paper laid down on oak panel

panel: 16 ⅝ by 12 ½ in.; 42.2 by 31.8 cm

framed: 22 by 18 in.; 55.9 by 45.7 cm

Possibly Robert Kerr (1636-1702), 1st Marquess of Lothian, Newbattle Abbey, Scotland;

Probably William Kerr (1661-1722), 2nd Marquess of Lothian, Newbattle Abbey, Scotland;

William Kerr (1690-1767), 3rd Marquess of Lothian, Newbattle Abbey, Scotland;

Thence by descent and inheritance with Newbattle Abbey and Monteviot House to Michael Kerr (b.1945), 13th Marquess of Lothian;

By whom sold ("Property from the Marquesses of Lothian"), London, Sotheby's, 28 March 2017, lot 450 (as Attributed to Schalcken);

With Selvaggio Fine Art, via Bob Haboldt (as Schalcken);

From whom acquired by Aso O. Tavitian at TEFAF, Maastricht, 2018.

Probably Newbattle Abbey inventory, circa 1726/1727 ("A picture of Rosamond by G. Schalken junior");

Newbattle Abbey inventory, March 1833, inv. no. 272;

Newbattle Abbey inventory, May 1878, inv. no. 272 ("Portrait of a woman holding a cup, by Schalcken," Inner Hall);

Newbattle Abbey inventory, 21 May 1900, inv. no. 272 (Inner Hall);

Newbattle Abbey inventory, December 1901, p. 76 ("Bust of a woman holding a cup," Inner Hall);

Monteviot House inventory, 14 July 1989, inv. no. 272 (as Godfried Schalcken);

W. Franits, Godefridus Schalcken: A Dutch Painter in Late Seventeenth-Century London, Amsterdam 2018, p. 181, cat. no. 36.