Follower of Caspar Netscher

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.