Woman Weaving a Crown of Flowers

Provenance

Graf Lothar Franz von Schönborn [1655-1729], Schloss Weissenstein, Pommersfelden, from at least 1719;[1] by descent in the Schönborn family; (Schönborn sale, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 17-18 and 22-23 May 1867, no. 111); purchased by De l'Espine. Comte de L*** [Lambertye or Lépine], Paris; (his sale, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 15 April 1868, no. 57). Goldschmidt collection, Paris; (his sale, Galerie Georges Petit, Paris, 14 and 16-17 May 1898, no. 97); purchased by Fischer. Gabriel Cognacq [1880-1951], Paris; (his estate sale, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 11-13 June 1952, no. 87); Princess Ermina Tonsson, Washington, D.C.; (sale, Christie's East, New York, 19 November 1980, no. 197); (P. de Boer, Amsterdam); purchased c. 1981 by private collection, New Rochelle, New York; (sale, Sotheby's, New York, 22 January 2004, no. 25); (Colnaghi, London); sold 16 March 2005 to NGA. [1] The painting is listed in catalogues of the Schönborn collection published in 1719 (_Fürtrefflicher Gemähld-und Bilder-Schatz / So in denen Gallerie und Zimmern / des Churfürstl. Pommersfeldischen..._, Bamberg, 1719: no. 57); 1746 (_Beschreibung des Fürtreflichen Gemähld- und Bilder-Schatzes..._, Würzburg, 1746); and 1857 (_Katalog der Gräflich von Schönborn'schen Bilder-Gallerie zu Pommersfelden_, Würzburg, 1857: no. 96).

Woman Weaving a Crown of Flowers

Schalcken, Godefridus

c. 1675/1680

Accession Number

2005.26.1

Medium

oil on panel

Dimensions

overall: 26.7 x 20.3 cm (10 1/2 x 8 in.) | framed: 37.6 x 31.4 x 5.1 cm (14 13/16 x 12 3/8 x 2 in.)

Classification

Painting

Museum

National Gallery of Art

Washington, D.C., United States

Credit Line

The Lee and Juliet Folger Fund