Portrait of a lady, full-length, in an ochre silk dress, seated on a terrace before a curtain, a fountain in a garden beyond

Details

After Caspar Netscher
Portrait of a lady, full-length, in an ochre silk dress, seated on a terrace before a curtain, a fountain in a garden beyond
oil on canvas
76.4 x 63.8 cm.

Provenance

With H. Jüngeling, The Hague, in the early 1960s.

Literature

M.E. Wieseman, Caspar Netscher and late seventeenth-century Dutch painting, Doornspijk, 2002, p. 313.

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Lot Essay

The prototype is in the National Gallery, London (inv. no. 4790).

According to Wieseman, the London picture is very close to Netscher's portrait of Mary Stuart, the future Queen Mary II of England.

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