The Rafael Valls Sale, Part II

Caspar Netscher

Portrait of a lady in a blue and white dress by a fountain in a landscape

Lot Closed

December 16, 02:22 PM GMT

Estimate

6,000 - 8,000 GBP

Lot Details

Description

Caspar Netscher

Heidelberg (?) 1639 - 1684 The Hague

Portrait of a lady in a blue and white dress by a fountain in a landscape

signed and dated lower left: Netscher 1683

oil on canvas

unframed: 48 x 39.3 cm.; 18⅞ x 15½ in.;

framed: 60.4 x 52.2 cm.; 23¾ x 20⅝ in.

Rudolf Preiswerk, Basel, 1937;
Anonymous sale, London, Sotheby's, 12 July 1978, lot 70, to Ingold for £5000 (as Caspar Netscher, dated 1684);
Anonymous sale, London, Christie's South Kensington, 29 April 2014, lot 108 (as Caspar Netscher, dated 1683).

M.E. Wieseman, Caspar Netscher and Late Seventeenth-century Dutch Painting, Doornspijk 2002, p. 406, no. C 392, reproduced fig. 74 (as Theodoor Netscher, from photographs).

Caspar Netscher was brought up in Arnhem. He travelled to France in 1659–62 before settling in The Hague in 1662, where he was to spend the rest of his life. He enjoyed a successful career as a genre and portrait painter. While his portraits reflect the individual example of his teacher, Gerard ter Borch, with whom he trained in Deventer, Netscher has a tendency to adorn his sitters with lavish accessories and use a lively and colourful palette.

There is a red-chalk drawing related to this painting in the Leiden University Library, which bears the signature 'Netscher'.¹

¹Inv. no. AW 1634; http://hdl.handle.net/1887.1/item:1277778