Caspar Netscher (1635/6-1684)

A portrait of a gentleman wearing a roman uniform

signed 'G Netscher. Fec./1675.' (lower right)

oil on canvas, 48,5x39,5 cm

Literature:
-C. Hofstede de Groot, 'A Catalogue Raisonné', V, London 1912, pp. 263 and 264, no. 350, titled: 'Portrait of a Young Prince'.
-Karl Faymonville, 'Die profanen Denkmäler und die Sammlungen der Stadt Aachen', Kunstdenkmäler der Rheinprovinsz, X, Düsseldorf 1924, ill. p. 258 (in the collection of Mrs Th. Nelessen).
-A.W. Vliegenthart, 'Bildersammlung der Fürsten zu Salm', Zutphen 1981, p. 180, no. 130.
-M.E. Wieseman, 'Caspar Netscher and late seventeenth century Dutch Painting', Ann Arbor (MI) 1991, p. 483, no. B.25.

Provenance:
-Collection Reichsgräfin von Anrep-Elmpt zu Schwitten und Burgau; Her auction, Heberle, Cologne, 5 June 1893, lot 81, with ill.
-Acquired from the above by Mrs Th. Nellessen; Her auction, Creutzer, Aix-la-Chapelle, 9 November 1927, lot 63, with ill.
-With Kunsthandel Gebr. Douwes, Amsterdam, 1927.
-Auction Sotheby's Parke-Bernett, New York, 4 June 1980, lot 20.
-Auction, Christie's, Amsterdam, 6 November 2000, lot 100.