STUDIO OF CASPAR NETSCHER (?HEIDELBERG 1639-1684 THE HAGUE)

The present painting is a studio variant of a signed family portrait, today in the collection of the Baltimore Museum of Art (inv. 44.103; see Wieseman, op. cit., no. 59). A compositional study for the three figures at left is in the Louvre, Paris. The group at left also appears in a painting, also dated 1667, by Netscher's pupil Aleijda Wolfsen (Sotheby's, London, 7 April 1982, lot 67). An attribution to Wolfsen may be entertained, though the painting's quality appears higher than her usual production.