2017.168: Portrait of a Lady as the Goddess Diana

Identification and Creation

Object Number

2017.168

People

Godfried Schalcken, Dutch (Made 1643 - 1706 The Hague, Netherlands)

Title

Portrait of a Lady as the Goddess Diana

Other Titles

Former Title: Portrait d'une jeune femme, en Diane
Former Title: The Goddess Diana out hunting in a Wood
Former Title: Diana at the Chase

Classification

Paintings

Work Type

painting

Date

c. 1675-1680

Culture

Dutch

Persistent Link

https://hvrd.art/o/356432

Physical Descriptions

Medium

Oil on panel

Dimensions

26.5 × 20.6 cm (10 7/16 × 8 1/8 in.)
framed: 40 × 33 cm (15 3/4 × 13 in.)

Inscriptions and Marks

• inscription: lower right, on bow: G SCHALCKEN
• inscription: black stencil: RC775 [Christie's Stock Number]
• label: verso, printed, cut from Georges Petit Catalogue: SCHALCKEN (Godefroy) / Dordrecht, 1643 + Dordrecht, 1706. / 89 - Portrait d'une jeune femme, en Diane. / Peinture sur bois, cintrée du haut, signée sur l'arc. / Haut., 27 cent. 1/2; larg., 20 cent. 1/2. / Cadre rectangulaire, cintré du haut, avec écoincons / feuillagés et oves, en bois sculpté et doré. Époque / Louis XVI. / [graphite:] Sale Collection of / M. M. Paulme / Gallery George Petit / Nov 22 / 1923
• label: blue border, handwritten text: 25
• label: blue printed border, red chalk inscription: 75

Provenance

Recorded Ownership History

Johan van der Linden van Slingelandt, Dordrecht [1]. Charles René Dominique Sochet Destouches, Paris, sold [through his sale, Paris, March 21, 1794, lot 59]; to Constantin. [2] Marius Paulme, Paris, sold [through his sale, Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, commissaire priseur M.F. Lair-Dubreuil at Hôtel Drouot, November 22, 1923, lot 89]; to Horst. [Phillips, London, July 3, 1990, lot 106]. [Christie’s, London, December 13, 1996, lot 2]. [Johnny Van Haeften, Ltd., London], sold; to Anne and Peter Brooke, Boston, 1998, gift; to Harvard Art Museums

Notes
[1] According to Descamps, loc. cit.

[2] From annotated March 21, 1794 auction catalogue.

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line

Harvard Art Museums/Fogg Museum, Gift of Peter and Anne Brooke

Accession Year

2017

Object Number

2017.168

Division

European and American Art

Contact

am_europeanamerican@harvard.edu

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Publication History

• Catalogue d'une collection très-précieuse de tableaux des écoles Flamande, Hollandoise et Allemande...composant le Cabinet du Cityoen Destouches, auct. cat., A. J. Le Brun and Julliot (Paris, March 21, 1794), p. 26, lot 59
• Cornelis Hofstede de Groot, A Catalogue Raisonné of the Most Eminent Dutch Painters of the Seventeenth Century Based on the Work of John Smith, Macmillan and Co. (London, 1913), p. 330, no. 71
• "Collection de M. M. P...", Gazette de l'Hôtel Drouot (Paris, November 24, 1923), vol. 32, no. 126, no. 89
• Catalogue des Tableaux Anciens principalement de l'École Française du XVIIIe siècle, auct. cat., Galerie Georges Petit (Paris, November 22, 1923), p. 73, lot 89, repr. as plate XXXIV
• Thierry Beherman, Godfried Schalcken, Maeght (Paris, 1988), p. 118, no. 31, repr.
• Important Old Master Pictures, auct. cat., Christie's, London (London, December 13, 1996), Lot 2, repr.
• Dutch and Flemish Old Master Paintings, auct. cat. (London, 1998), no. 34, repr.
• Ronni Baer, The Poetry of Everyday Life: Dutch Painting in Boston, MFA Publications (Boston, 2002), p. 81, repr.

Exhibition History

• The Poetry of Everyday Life: Dutch Painting in Boston, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 06/12/2002 - 09/15/2002

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