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Woman Selling Herrings

Godfried Schalcken

1675 - 1680

Medium

oil on panel

Dimensions

h 19cm × w 15.5cm

Collection

Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

Materials

panel; oil paint (paint)

Object Type

painting

Subject Matter

adult woman; selling; bony fishes: herring; merchant, salesman - BB - women engaged in trade and commerce

Acquisition Method

purchase

Acquired

1908

Notes

height 19 cm x width 15.5 cm

Collection Type

paintings

About Godfried Schalcken

1643–1706 • Dutch Republic

Studied with Samuel van Hoogstraten in Dordrecht in 1656 and Gerrit Dou in Leiden. He returned to Dordrecht in 1665, where he was a standard-bearer with the arquebusiers. In 1679 he married Françoise van Dimen, of Breda, with whom he had seven children, six of whom died young. He was a guild member in The Hague in 1691, before leaving to spend several years in London, attracted by the success of his fellow-countryman Kneller. Comment on works: Genre; Portraits