Courtship

ca. 1665

Caspar Netscher Dutch, ca. between 1636 and 1639 - 1684

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Dutch Golden Age, Level 3, South Wing

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Title Courtship

Artwork Date ca. 1665

Artist Caspar Netscher

Life Dates ca. between 1636 and 1639 - 1684

Nationality Please note: Definitions for nationality may vary significantly, depending on chronology and world events. Some definitions include: Belonging to a people having a common origin based on a geography and/or descent and/or tradition and/or culture and/or religion and/or language, or sharing membership in a legally defined nation. Dutch

Culture Please note: Cultures may be defined by the language, customs, religious beliefs, social norms, and material traits of a group. Unknown

Medium Oil on canvas

Dimensions Unframed: 19 1/4 × 17 1/4 inches (48.9 × 43.8 cm) Framed: 26 1/4 × 24 1/4 × 2 7/8 inches (66.7 × 61.6 × 7.3 cm)

Classification Paintings

Department European Painting

Credit Bequest of Alfred J. Fisher

Accession Number This unique number is assigned to an individual artwork as part of the cataloguing process at the time of entry into the permanent collection. Most frequently, accession numbers begin with the year in which the artwork entered the museum’s holdings. For example, 2008.3 refers to the year of acquisition and notes that it was the 3rd of that year. The DIA has a few additional systems—no longer assigned—that identify specific donors or museum patronage groups. 67.114

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Signed Signed, center left on base of column: G Netscher

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Provenance

January 11, 1773, sold by (Basan, Paris, France) auction Lebrun, lot 13 [for 2,100 livres]

Ralph Bernal (London, England)

May 8, 1823, sold by (Christie's, London, England) auction Bernal, lot 27

1929, (Howard Young Galleries, New York, New York, USA) no. 8293

Mr. & Mrs. Alfred J. Fisher (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

1967-present, bequest to the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

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Published References

Smith, J. Catalogue Raisonné of the Works of the most Eminent Dutch, Flemish and French Painters, vol. 4, London, 1883, pp. 156-157, no. 38.

Hofstede de Groote, C. A Catalogue Raisonné of the Works of the most Eminent Dutch Painters of the Seventeenth Century, trans. and ed., E.G. Hawke. London, 1907-26, vol. 5, p. 184, no.105.

Graves, A. Art Sales from early in the Eighteenth Century to early in the Twentieth Century (mostly old masters and early English Pictures). London, 1918-21, vol. 2, p. 281.

Ninth Loan Exhibition of Dutch Genre and Landscape Painting of the Seventeenth Century. Exh. cat., Detroit Institute of Arts. Detroit, 1929, p. xv, cat. 45 (ill.).

Giltaij, J. "Joost van Geel, een Rotterdamse kunstenaar." Boymans Bijdragen . . . voor J. C. Ebbinge Wubben. Rotterdam, 1978, pp. 137-149, p. 143 (fig. 10).

Seven Ages of Man. Exh. cat., London Regional Art Gallery. London, ON, 1980, pp. 48-49.

Robinson, F.W. Gabriel Metsu (1629-1667) A Study of his Place in Dutch Genre Painting of the Golden Age. New York, ca. 1974, p. 94 (fig. 232).

Jongh, E. de. Kwesties van betekenis. Thema en motief in de Nederlandse schilderkunst van de zeventiende eeuw. Leiden, 1995, pp. 16-18, pl. 6.

Wieseman, M.E. Caspar Netscher and Late Seventeenth-Century Dutch Painting. Aetas Aurea XVI. Doornspijk, 2002, p. 350, cat. C59 (ill.).

Bandes, Susan J. Pursuits and Pleasures: Baroque Paintings from the Detroit Institute of Arts. Exh. cat., Dennos Museum Center, Kalamazoo Art Museum, Kresge Art Museum, Muskegon Museum of Art. Battle Creek, 2003, pp. 9, 30, 31 (ill.).

Masters of Dutch Painting: The Detroit Institute of Arts. London, 2004, pp. 146-149.

Keyes, G.S. "A Brief History of the European Paintings Collection at the Detroit Institute of Arts with a Focus on the Dutch School." in the catalogue for The European Fine Art Fund (TEFAF). Maastricht, 2005, pp. 10-15.

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