Caspar Netscher (Nachfolge) 1639 Heidelberg – Den Haag 1684 Merry company in a landscape garden

Oil on canvas, relined. (c. 1690). 155.3 x 125 cm. Inscribed verso at the top of the stretcher “Schloßs II. weil K. Mutter Speisezimm/ rechts Wand. Centre” and numbered “120” in white chalk. Framed.

Period

15th-18th Century

Technique

Oil

Details

Provenienz:
Wittelsbacher Besitz, Schloss Schleißheim II;
Wohl sog. “Schleißheimer Versteigerung”, 1852, aus den Depots der Kgl. Centralgemäldegallerie;
Internationales Kunst- und Auktions-Haus, Berlin, Auktion, 12.3.1935, Los 95 (als “Art des Largillière), Tafel 14;
Privatbesitz, Hessen.

Description

The painting was formerly auctioned as “in the manner of Nicolas de Largillière (1656 – Paris – 1746)” (see RKD ill. no. 1032058). The painter is presumably a successor to the court painter Caspar Netscher, who worked for the House of Wittelsbach.
We are grateful to Sabine van Beek, RKD, The Hague, for her assistance with the catalogue entry (e-mail dated 8.4.2024).

We would like to thank Sabine van Beek, RKD, The Hague, for kind advice on cataloguing this lot (e-mail dated 8.4.2024).