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CASPAR NETSCHER (HEIDELBERG? 1639-1684 THE HAGUE)

Lot 15
05.02.2025 00:00UTC +00:00
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Lot 15 | CASPAR NETSCHER (HEIDELBERG? 1639-1684 THE HAGUE)
Estimate value
$ 700 000 – 1 000 000
CASPAR NETSCHER (HEIDELBERG? 1639-1684 THE HAGUE)
The Seduction
signed 'CNetjcher. F.' ('CN' linked, lower right, on the chair)
oil on panel
15 x 12 5/8 in. (38.1 x 32 cm.)




Provenance

with Jacques Ignatius de Roore (1686-1747), The Hague, from whom acquired before 1752 for 300 florins by the following,
with Willem Lormier (d. 1682-1758), The Hague, by 1752, included in his storeroom catalogue of December 1754 as 'Een sittende Juffer met een witte Satyne Rok, en een staande, met een rood flueele bond gevoert Jakje, en een man staande, die een stuk goud laat sien, br. i v. en een half d., h. i v 2 en een half d. P.'
His deceased sale; A. Francken, The Hague, 4 July 1763, lot 191, where acquired for 1,600 florins by Mr. Voet on behalf of,
Augustus III (1696-1763), Elector of Saxony and King of Poland, Dresden and by descent to,
Frederick Christian (1722-1763), Prince-Elector of Saxony and King of Poland, Dresden and by descent to,
Frederick Augustus I (1750-1827), King of Saxony and King of Poland, Dresden, until at least 1770.
Daniel Wade Acraman (1755-1847), Bristol, 1833.
(Probably) Nathaniel, 1st Lord Rothschild (1840-1915), 148 Piccadilly, London and by descent to,
Victor Rothschild, 3rd Baron Rothschild (1910-1990), 148 Piccadilly, London; his sale, Sotheby’s, on the premises, 19 April 1937, lot 14 (£700), to the below,
with S. & R. Rosenberg Ltd., London, where acquired by,
Fritz Mannheimer (1890-1939), Amsterdam.
Private collection, acquired circa 1940, and by descent until sold,
[Property of a Family Collection]; Sotheby's, New York, 26 January 2006, lot 22.
with Johnny van Haeften, London, where acquired in 2008 by the present owner.



Literature

G. Hoet, Catalogus of naamlyst van schilderyen, II, The Hague, 1752, p. 433, no. 197.
Catalogus van schilderyen, van den heer agent Willem Lormier, in 's Gravenhage, The Hague, 1754, p. 19.
J.B. Descamps, La Vie des Peintres Flamandes, Allemand, et Hollandois, III, Paris, 1760, pp. 83-84.
P. Terwesten, Catalogus of the Naamlyst van Schilderyen, III, The Hague, 1770, p. 326.
J. Smith, A Catalogue Raisonné of the Works of the Most Eminent Dutch, Flemish, and French Painters, IV, London, 1833, pp. 158-9, no. 45, described as 'The fortune teller’, and p. 164, no. 65, described separately as 'Gentleman showing a Gold Medal to two Ladies' once belonging to Lormier.
C. Hofstede de Groot, A Catalogue Raisonné of the Works of the Most Eminent Dutch Painters of the Seventeenth Century, V, London, 1913, p. 176, no. 79 as 'The Fortune-Teller,' and p. 184, no. 104, as 'The Seduction’.
Pantheon, April 1937, pp. 128-129, illustrated.
M.E. Wieseman, Caspar Netscher and Late Seventeenth Century Dutch painting, Doornspijk, 2002, pp. 64, 184, no. 26, illustrated.
M.E. Wieseman, `Paper Trails: Drawings in the Work of Caspar Netscher, his Pupils and Followers,' Collected Opinions: Essays on Netherlandish Art in Honour of Alfred Bader, V. Manuth and A. Rüger eds., London, 2004, p. 253.
E. Korthals Altes, ‘International rivalry at the auction of Willem Lormier's paintings in 1763: James Lowther, 1st Earl of Lonsdale, and August III, Elector of Saxony and King of Poland’, Simiolus: Netherlands Quarterly for the History of Art, XXXVIII, no. 4, 2015-2016, pp. 278, 280, 286, no. 21, illustrated.
Artist:Caspar Netscher (1639 - 1684)
Applied technique:Oil on panel
Genre:Genre art
Place of origin:Western Europe, The Netherlands
Auction house category:Paintings
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