Caspar Netscher Heidelberg 1639 -1684 The Hague

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Description

Caspar Netscher
a portrait of a lady, seated three-quarter length, wearing a red dress with blue sleeves and a gilt-embroidered underskirt, a white chemise, pearl jewellery, a blue shawl draped on her left arm, in a park setting
signed and dated right centre: CN (in ligature) etfcher. Fec./1683
oil on canvas laid down on (17th Century) panel

Provenance

Anonymous sale (The Property of a Gentleman), London, Christie´s, 9 June 1972, lot 95, for 750 Guineas to the late owner.

Literature

M.E. Wieseman, Caspar Netscher and Late Seventeenth-century Dutch Painting, Doornspijk 2002, p. 313, no. 219, reproduced fig. 219 (as whereabouts unknown).

Catalogue Note

The sculpted relief to the left of the sitter is repeated elsewhere in the work of Netscher, for example in the portrait of a so-called 'Princess of Orange', dated 1670 (see under Literature below, Wieseman, pp. 240-41, cat. no. 103, reproduced fig. 103), and in Netscher's drawings of similar garlands in the Rijksprentenkabinet, Amsterdam (inv. nos. 00:205 and 00:206).

This lot is accompanied by a letter from Dr. K. Rehn, stating the sitter to be the mother of Lady Vanleefdael of Waalwijk, and by a photostat certificate of Dr. W. Bernt, dated 16 April 1973, stating this painting to be by Caspar Netscher.

Bears two wax seals on the reverse.