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- Caspar Netscher (1639 - 1684)
- A Young Lady playing the Guitar
- Netherlands
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- Date: 1669
- Object Type: Painting
- Medium: Oil on oak panel
- Image size: 35.7 x 28.1 cm
- Inv: P214
- Location: East Galleries II
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- The son of a German sculptor, Caspar Netscher moved to Arnhem and later studied under Gerard ter Borch in Deventer. He settled in The Hague, becoming a member of the painters’ society, Pictura, in 1662. During this period he specialised in small-scale genre scenes (of which The Lace Maker, also in the Wallace Collection, is the finest example). A Young Lady playing the Guitar depicts a fashionably dressed girl, seated at a table covered by a sumptuous rug. Holding a guitar, she shows off her musical accomplishments.