Object number2022.37

Portrait de Gaspard Netscher

Portfolio/Seriesfrom Galerie du Palais-Royale, Vol. 3

Date1787

Artist Ignaz Sebastian Klauber (German, 1753 - 1817)

after a painting by Caspar Netscher (Dutch, 1639-1684)

CultureDutch

MediumEngraving

DimensionsImage: 14 1/2 x 9 3/8 in. (36.8 x 23.8 cm)
Plate: 16 1/2 x 11 3/4 in. (41.9 x 29.8 cm)
Sheet: 18 3/8 x 13 1/2 in. (46.7 x 34.3 cm)

Credit LineGift of C.G. Boerner LLC in honor of John Murphy, Philip and Lynn Straus Curator of Prints and Drawings (2021– ), The Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Vassar College

On View

Not on view

Period18th c

Classification(s)

InscribedPrinted below the portrait, center: Peint par Gaspard Netscher Dessiné par Beaudoin. Gravé par I. S. Klauber, Graveur du Roi. / PORTRAIT DE GASPARD NETSCHER / A.P. D.R. / ÉCOLE HOLLANDOISE.; on recto, by unidentified hand, upper right corner in red ink: 94; on verso, upper left corner in pencil [circled]: 158-15; lower right corner: 1985-52-16279 [crossed through] / FLLAC 2022.37; on a piece of paper connected to the verso, extending the left margin: Andresen (HB) I, / 7 IV/IV / D[circled] 1985-52-16279

BibliographyLe Blanc 1854-89 / Manuel de l'Amateur d'Estampes 1550-1820 (undescribed) Muller II 1853 / Beschrijvende catalogus van 7000 Portretten, van Nederlanders (undescribed) van Someren 1888 / Beschriivende catalogus van Gegraveerde Portretten van Nederlanders. Vervolg op Frederik Mullers catalogus van 7000 Portretten van Nederlanders. (3867) ProvenanceJohn S. Phillips, Philadelphia;
Bequeathed in 1876 to Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, deaccessioned in 1985;
Acquired by Philadelphia Museum of Art (Muriel and Philip Berman Gift acc. no. 1985-52-16279), deaccessioned in 2017

DescriptionPortrait of Caspar Netscher, half-length, directed to the right, head slightly turned to face the viewer, wearing a robe, white collar and a skull-cap; a palette with brushes in front, a small sculpture at his left, a statue and a landscape in the background; in trompe l'oeil stone border of putti and a goat with a curtain hung on the right and a high relief in the bottom part. Text at the bottom of the sheet reads "Ier. TABLEAU DE GASPARD NETSCHER. / Peint fur Bois, ayant de hauter 1 Pied 4 Pouces, fur 1 Pied de large. / Monseigneur Le Duc d'Orléans posséde Six Tableaux de ce Maître. / Ce Tableau ou l'outeur s'est représente lui meme avec les accessoires qui caracterisent son Art, est d'une beaute parfaite. / La couleur en est harmonieuse, l'effet ferme et vigoureux, et le dessin correct: tout y est etudie precieusement et sans secheresse; et / l'on peut regarder ce Portrait comme un des plus beaux qui soient sortis des mains de Gaspard Netscher. / Ce Peintre n'aquit a Prague, capitale de la Boheme, en 1636, et mourut a la Haye en 1684, age de 48 Ans. / Mle. Niquet Scrip.

Terms

male

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