Lot Essay
A drawing for the present lot is in the Stanford University Museum of Art, inv. no. 74.202
THE PROPERTY OF A PRIVATE COLLECTOR
CASPAR NETSCHER* (1639-1684)
Details
CASPAR NETSCHER* (1639-1684)
Portrait of Queen Mary II of England as Princess of Orange, seated small full length, wearing a blue and gold damask dress with white lace trim, and a red velvet cape with ermine lining, holding a globe with the constellations, in a portico, a landscape with garden statuary beyond
signed and dated 'C. NetScher.f/1676'--oil on canvas
31½ x 24½in. (80 x 62.2cm.)
Portrait of Queen Mary II of England as Princess of Orange, seated small full length, wearing a blue and gold damask dress with white lace trim, and a red velvet cape with ermine lining, holding a globe with the constellations, in a portico, a landscape with garden statuary beyond
signed and dated 'C. NetScher.f/1676'--oil on canvas
31½ x 24½in. (80 x 62.2cm.)
Provenance
Fürstin Albertina Agnes of Orange-Nassau (1634-1697), Leeuwaarden, (Inv. no.8, 1681) and by descent to
Fürstin Henrietta Catharina von Sachsen- Anhalt-Dessau, (Inv. no. 8, until 1708
Herzogin von Sachsen
Maria Eleonora von Radziwill, and by decent to the daughters of
Fürstin von Nassau-Dietz, and thence by decent
until purchased by the present owner
Fürstin Henrietta Catharina von Sachsen- Anhalt-Dessau, (Inv. no. 8, until 1708
Herzogin von Sachsen
Maria Eleonora von Radziwill, and by decent to the daughters of
Fürstin von Nassau-Dietz, and thence by decent
until purchased by the present owner
Literature
Prof. Dr. C. Rost, Der alte Nassauisch-Oranische Bilderschatz und sein späterer Verbleib, Jahnbücher für Kunstwissenschaft, 1873, no.6
E.W. Moes, Iconographia Batava Beredeneerde Lijst van Geschilderde en Gebeeldhouwde Partretten van Noord-Nederlanders in Vorige Eewen, 1905, II, under no. 4805, no. 8
C. Hofstede de Groot, A Catalogue raisonné, etc., V, 1913, no. 298 and 298a
E.W. Moes, Iconographia Batava Beredeneerde Lijst van Geschilderde en Gebeeldhouwde Partretten van Noord-Nederlanders in Vorige Eewen, 1905, II, under no. 4805, no. 8
C. Hofstede de Groot, A Catalogue raisonné, etc., V, 1913, no. 298 and 298a