AFTER CASPAR NETSCHER | A LADY WITH A SPINET

(Possibly) Sale: Sotheby's, Melbourne, May 7, 1990, lot 50

This painting is a 19th Century variant of Song with Harpsichord Accompaniment by Caspar Netscher in the Staatliche Kunstsammlungen, Dresden (inv. no. 1349). (1) Although both compositions showcase a lady playing the spinet, she is the only figure depicted in the present lot, meanwhile the painting in Dresden includes a gentleman singing in the foreground and two other figures in the background. 

(1) See Marjorie E. Wieseman, Caspar Netscher and Late Seventeenth-century Dutch Painting, Netherlands, 2002, cat. no. 53, illustrated pp. 205-06.