Lot 424
  • 424

Studio of Caspar Netscher

Estimate
15,000 - 20,000 USD
bidding is closed

Description

  • Caspar Netscher
  • Portrait of a Lady
  • oil on canvas
  • 27 5/8 by 21 1/4 in.; 70 by 54 cm.

Provenance

Bachmann Collection, Berlin;
Collection of Catherine II in 1769 or 1770;
The Hermitage, St. Petersburg;
Art market, Berlin circa 1929;
Hans Cammann, Dusseldorf, 1936.

Literature

St. Petersburg, Hermitage, cat. 1838, p. 342, no. 14;
St. Petersburg, Hermitage, cat. 1901, p. 229; H. de Groot 388;
Gaehtgens 1987, pp. 106, 400, illustrated;
M.E. Weiseman, Caspar Netscher and Late Seventeenth-Century Dutch Painting, Ghent, 2002, p. 400, C-349 (under 'rejected and studio productions').

Condition

The canvas is lined. The surface of the work is in overall good condition. There is some frame abraision. Under UV; repaired tear in the upper left. Some areas of light retouching. Masking varnish.
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