A Woman reading by Lamplight (called 'The Penitent Magdalen')
after Godfried Schalcken (Made, near Dordrecht, 1643 - The Hague 1706)
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
1650 - 1750
Materials
Oil on canvas
Measurements
635 x 540 mm (25 x 21 ¼ in)
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Kedleston Hall, Derbyshire
NT 108897
Summary
Oil painting on canvas, A Woman reading by Lamplight (called 'The Penitent Magdalen'), after Godfried Schalcken (Made, nr Dordrecht, 1643 - The Hague 1706). The original is a much smaller and more delicate work on panel (26 x 21 cm.), that has been at Schwerin since between 1725 and 1792. It would not appear to have been the original of the mezzotint by James Watson, which may instead have been scraped down from the version – albeit also only 26 x 22 cm – now in the collection of Colonel Weld, Lulworth Manor (Beherman, fig. 24c).
Provenance
Recorded in the Housekeeper’s Room in 1856, in a catalgue annotated by Sir George Hayter, 1859; bought with part of the contents of Kedleston with the aid of the National Heritage Memorial Fund in 1987 when the house and park were given to the National Trust by Francis Curzon, 3rd Viscount Scarsdale (1924-2000)
Credit line
Kedleston Hall, The Scarsdale Collection (acquired with the help of the National Heritage Memorial Fund and transferred to the National Trust in 1987)
Marks and inscriptions
G. SCHALKEN (label, painted, bottom centre of frame, black text on gold)
Makers and roles
after Godfried Schalcken (Made, near Dordrecht, 1643 - The Hague 1706), artist
References
Behermann 1988 Thierry Behermann, Godfried Schalcken, 1988, No.24, pp.108-109 fig.24b