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Portrait of four children with a dog and a cat at a windowsill
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October 6, 02:56 PM GMT
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Portrait of four children with a dog and a cat at a windowsill
oil on canvas
canvas: 19 ⅛ by 15 ⅝ in.; 48.6 by 39.7 cm.
framed: 27 ⅛ by 23 ¾ in.; 68.9 by 60.3 cm.
Anonymous sale, New York, Habsburg, 10 April 1991, lot 7 (as Arnold Boonen).
M. Wieseman, Caspar Netscher, Doornspijk 2002, pp. 225-226, under cat. no. 81, copy (i).
This small canvas of four children with a dog and a cat is one of several known copies of a painting dated 1668 by Caspar Netscher (formerly in the Rothschild collection, present whereabouts unknown).1 It has been proposed that the original was a portrait of the artist's own four children, although this identification cannot be proven.
1 M.J. Wieseman, Caspar Netscher and Late Seventeenth-Century Dutch Painting, Doornspijk 2002, pp. 225-226, cat. no. 81, reproduced fig. 81.
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