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| Artist | After Dou, Gerrit (Dutch painter and draftsman, 1613-1675) |
| Previous attributions | Previously attributed to after Schalcken, Godfried (Dutch painter, 1643-1706) |
| Title | Candlelit Cellar |
| Date earliest | possibly about 1820 |
| Date latest | possibly about 1850 |
| Material | oil on panel (hardwood {mahogany}) |
| Measurements | 40.8 x 34.4 cm |
| Description | The composition of this nineteenth-century painting is derived from a work by Gerrit Dou. Although the subject of a couple in a wine cellar is the same, the anecdotal perspective in the copy differs significantly from the original. In Dou's version the emphasis is on young love, with a maid filling a jug from a wine barrel as she talks to a young man holding a wine glass. The sense of innocence is lost in the later painting, however. Here the maid holds the glass as an older man puts his arm around her shoulder and entices her to drink. |
| Subject | figure; everyday life |
| Collection | Bridport Museum Trust |
| Current accession number | BRPMG:1600 |
| Previous accession number(s) | 638; 169 |
| Acquisition details | Probably bequeathed by Miss V. K. Hildebrand 1969. |
| Provenance | Lt. Col. W. H. Hildebrand, d. 1938; by descent to Miss V. K. Hildebrand. |
| Notes | Back of panel: 'G. Schalcken Dort / 1648-1706'; 3 labels from Chapman Bros. restorers, Chelsea; Stencilled 'BB'. Frame: '127'. This work is a copy of Dou, G., The Wine Cellar, c.1660 (private collection) (see Baer, R., Gerrit Dou, 1613-1675: Master Painter in the Age of Rembrandt, Washington, 2000, cat. no. 23, pp. 110-111. A similar nineteenth-century copy is among rejected attributions in Beherman, T., Godfried Schalcken, Paris, 1988, no. 337, Les Amoureux Surpris (National Museum, Krakow). |
| Rights status | Bridport Museum Trust |
| Author | Dr Anne L. Cowe |
