Lot 21
21
Caspar Netscher (Heidelberg 1639-1684 The Hague)
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Caspar Netscher (Heidelberg 1639-1684 The Hague)

Portrait of a lady, seated three-quarter-length, in a gold dress and blue wrap with gold embroidery, a wooded landscape beyond

Details
Caspar Netscher (Heidelberg 1639-1684 The Hague)
Portrait of a lady, seated three-quarter-length, in a gold dress and blue wrap with gold embroidery, a wooded landscape beyond
signed and dated 'C. Netscher. 1674' (centre right, on the stone ledge)
oil on canvas
19 x 15¾ in. (48.3 x 40 cm.)
Provenance
with Galerie Ratton-Ladriére, Paris.
Anonymous sale; Christie's, New York, 23 May 1997, lot 4, where purchased by Edward T. Wilson, Fund for Fine Arts, Chevy Chase, Maryland, by whom given to The Los Angeles County Museum of Art;
The Los Angeles Country Museum of Art; Christie's, New York, 25 May 2005, lot 270.
Literature
Majorie E. Wieseman, Caspar Netscher and Late Seventeenth-century Dutch painting, Ghent, 2002, p. 263, no. 134.
Special notice
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Lot Essay

Caspar Netscher initially trained in Deventer under Terborch, painting genre scenes and some religious and mythological subjects. He settled in the Hague around 1661, and by 1670 turned to portraiture almost exclusively, retaining the same attention to detail found in his genre paintings. Netscher established an excellent reputation, receiving an invitation to paint in the court of Charles II, although it is unknown whether he accepted.

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