Caspar Netscher
Family Portrait before a Garden Landscape
1665-1667
Physical Qualities
Oil on canvas, 20 x 24 1/2 in. (50.8 x 62.2 cm.)
Credit Line
Bequest of Elise Agnus Daingerfield
Object Number
1944.103
The Baltimore Museum of Art by bequest, 1944; Collection of Elisa Carroll Agnus Daingerfield (1871–1942), Baltimore, MD probably purchased between 1934-1935; Robert Jackson (1880–1973), Concord, NH by purchase; F. Kleinberger & Co., New York, NY by purchase; Collection of Jules Porgès (1839–1921), Paris; John Slater, London by purchase, 1829 until at least 1833; Phillip’s, London, May 2, 1829, no. 111; Collection of Thomas Emmerson, Esq. (1776-1855); St. Martin by purchase, 1823; Lecharlier, Faber sale, Brussels, August 18, 1823, no. 141; Paris sale, December 12, 1815, no. 31; Man (Louis), Brussels, June 17, 1811, no. 58.
John Smith, A Catalogue Raisonné of The Works of the Most Eminent Dutch, Flemish, and French Painters, vol. 4 (London: Smith & Son., 1833), p. 157, no. 39.
Hofstede de Groot, A catalogue raisonné of the works of the most eminent Dutch painters of the seventeenth century, vol. 5 (London: Macmillan, 1913), pp. 298–299, no. 467.
Peter C. Sutton, A Guide to Dutch Art in America (Washington DC: Netherlands–American Amity Trust, 1986), p. 5. (as “Family Portrait”).
Marjorie E. Wieseman, Caspar Netscher and Late Seventeenth-Century Dutch Painting (Doornspijk: Davaco, 2002), pp. 93, 211, cat. 59, pl. 59.
Tamar van Riessen, "Recent Acquisitions: Women in the Rijksmuseum Collection. Aleijda Wolfsen, 'Seated Woman Dressed in Yellow Holding Sheet Music in her Hand, 1667,'" Rijksmuseum Bulletin 73, no. 1 (2025): 87.
Inscribed: FACE: LL, "Netscher 1666(8?)"
On View at the BMA
