Lovers singing by Candlelight
after Gerrit Dou (Leiden 1613 - Leiden 1675)
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
1650 - 1659 (bought by Ralph Bankes)
Materials
Oil on panel
Measurements
235 x 180 mm
Order this imageCollection
Kingston Lacy Estate, Dorset
NT 1257090
Caption
It is as we are looking through a keyhole at a woman seated at a table holding a sheet of paper, a musical score, and a man sitting next to her holding a candle. Ralph Bankes (1631?- 1677) bought this as a copy of the original painting by Dou, a pupil of Rembrandt in Leiden, then owned by the painter Sir Peter Lely before 1659 whilst he was still staying at Gray’s Inn, London. The original was subsequently bought by King James II and is still in the Royal Collection
Summary
Oil painting on panel, Lovers singing by Candlelight, after Gerrit Dou (Leyden 1613 – Leyden 1675). The lovers are shown through a key-hole.
Provenance
Bought by (Sir) Ralph Bankes in 1659 from (Sir) Peter Lely; bequeathed by Ralph Bankes, 1981
Marks and inscriptions
G. SCHALKEN / 1643-1707 (painted in black on fixed gilt label, centred under image)
Makers and roles
after Gerrit Dou (Leiden 1613 - Leiden 1675), artist previously catalogued as attributed to Godfried Schalcken (Made, near Dordrecht, 1643 - The Hague 1706), artist
