Young Woman Seated at a Table, Holding a Candle
late 17th century
Medium
Black chalk. Framing line in pen and brown ink
Dimensions
sheet: 10 3/16 x 8 1/8 in. (25.9 x 20.7 cm)
Classification
Drawings
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Frits and Rita Markus and Harry G. Sperling Funds, 2008
Accession Number
2008.378
Tags
About the Artist
Godfried Schalcken · 1643–1706
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 h...