The Courtship (Self Portrait with Lady)

Creator: Circle of Caspar Netscher (1635 -1684)
Title: The Courtship (Self Portrait with Lady)
Description: Oil on canvas
53.34 x 45.08 cm
69.85 x 61.60 x 7.62 cm
Provenance: (Possibly) Anonymous sale; Lebrun, Paris, 20-23
December 1773, lot 66, as Caspar Netscher (withdrawn).
Anonymous sale; Lebrun, Paris, 22 September 1774, lot
75 (140 livres).
M. de Cossé; his sale, Paillet and Chariot, Paris, 22 April
1776, lot 9, as Theodore Netscher (FF 130).
with J. Böhler, Munich, by 1916.
with Galerie Sankt Lucas, Vienna.
Private collection, Vienna.
with Newhouse Galleries, New York, by 1957.
Auction Catalogues: Burlington Magazine, XCIX, 1957, illustrated.
O. Ydema, Carpets and Their Dating in Netherlandish
Paintings, 1540-1700, Woodbridge, 1991, p. 179,
illustrated.
M.E. Wieseman, Caspar Netscher and Late Seventeenthcentury
Dutch Painting, Doornspijk, 2002, p. 353, no. C
77, as 'Circle of Netscher' and probably dating to the
early 1670s.
Status: Under research