Guitar player, Gaspard Netscher (Heidelberg, 1639 – The Hague, 1684)

Gaspard Netscher (Heidelberg, 1639 – The Hague, 1684)
Guitar player

Oil painting on canvas
39 x 31 cm. – Framed 55 x 45 cm.

With expertise from prof. Ferdinando Arisi

Outside a patrician palace, a woman is portrayed sitting while enjoying playing a baroque guitar. The depiction of her, bare-breasted, next to a stool and a table richly sculpted with cherub figures, on which a sheet of music and a lute are placed, could be elements that would give the painting a symbolic value, in particular as an allegory of music.

The beautiful composition, which we can date to around 1670/80, was created by Gaspard Netscher (Heidelberg, 1639 – The Hague, 1684), one of the leading artists of the Flemish Golden Age season, known above all as a portraitist of many illustrious figures of his time, including William of Orange and Mary II of England and Madame de Montespan.

His production consists mostly of small but elegant portraits in which the influence of French painting is perceived and often set outdoors, in elegant gardens illuminated by evening light, and enriched by elaborate sculptural works. In our case this propensity is identified in the typically baroque richness of the two furnishings, rendered with such precision that they can be defined as a still life in the painting.

For comparative purposes, we list below some of the painter's works, similar in terms of iconographic and stylistic choices to ours:
– Lute player, Piazzale degli Uffizi, Florence
https://rkd.nl/en/explore/images/295845
– Portrait of Adriana Sophia van Raesfelt, Private Collection
https://rkd.nl/en/explore/images/32087
– Portrait of a Lady (Anne Stuart?), Huntington Museum of Art, Huntington
https://rkd.nl/en/explore/images/305078
– Portrait of a lady in a garden, Rotterdam, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen
https://rkd.nl/en/explore/images/16022

Netscher's works can be found in various collections around the world, in museums such as the Uffizi Gallery, the Galleria Colonna in Rome, the Hermitage in St. Petersburg, the Louvre in Paris, the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, the Fine Arts Museum in San Francisco, and the New York Metropolitan Museum of Art.

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