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Young Woman Seated at a Table, Holding a Candle
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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)

Collection

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

Credit

Frits and Rita Markus and Harry G. Sperling Funds, 2008

Classification

Drawings

Department

Drawings and Prints

Rights

Public Domain

About Godfried Schalcken

1643–1706Dutch 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