Godfried SCHALCKEN (1643 - 1706) - Lot 126

Godfried SCHALCKEN (1643 - 1706) Bathsheba going to the bath Canvas frameless H. 49 cm - L. 40 cm ET Signed lower left G. SCHALCKEN F Bibliography: Thierry BEHERMAN, Godfried Schalcken, 1988, p. 308, N°210bis. Provenance : - Sale Dordrecht, 2 V 1708, no. 7 (sold for 120 florins) ; - Lambert van Hairen sale, Dodrecht, 13 X 1718, no. 7 (sold for 160 florins). "This painting, recently discovered by Jacques Foucart, was proposed by him as an original work by Schalcken. The attractive iconographic interpretation was proposed by Philippe Laux, author of the notice for the present painting. the present painting. The painting has only been attributed to Schalcken for some twenty years, when a restorer discovered his signature in the lower left shadow" ( Beherman, op.cit.p. 308).