A Girl with a Parrot
after Caspar Netscher (Heidelberg 1639 – The Hague 1684)
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
1800 - 1899
Materials
Oil on copper
Measurements
295 x 250 mm
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Snowshill Manor and Garden, Gloucestershire
NT 1336266
Summary
Oil painting on copper, A Girl with a Parrot, after Caspar Netscher (Heidelberg 1639 – The Hague 1684), 19th century. A girl at a window, holding a parrot above a gilded cage, with a page behind her. The table has a tablet inscribed M.D... and the rest is covered by an oriental carpet draped over the edge. Painted after a copy in Dresden which itself is after an original (in which boy looks younger) by Caspar Netscher of 1666 in the Von der Heydt Museum, Wuppertal between 1952- 2014 (once in Munich and having been in the hands of Hermann Goering sold at Christie's New York, 4 June 2014, lot 16) and now in the National Gallery of Art, Washington. A pen and brown ink with wash over black chalk drawing is in the British Museum (1824.00.11.250) along with two engravings of the two versions. Ornate frame painted gold.
Provenance
Given to the National Trust with Snowshill Manor in 1951 by Charles Paget Wade (1883-1956)
Makers and roles
after Caspar Netscher (Heidelberg 1639 – The Hague 1684), artist Dutch School, artist