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Description: | The costume of the sitter and the scholarly elements in this painting suggest that he was probably a scholar; possibly even a professor at Leiden University, which had Minerva as part of its official seal. Portraits of this period often showed sitters proudly showing off their wealth or learning. Caspar Netscher painted a larger portrait of the connoisseur and collector Abraham van Lennep in 1672, which shows the sitter in a housecoat seated at a rug-covered table surrounded by classical statues and books and pointing at the open book of artists' sketches on the table. | Subjects: | figure; interior; still life; mythology (Minerva; Medusa) | Source: | Vads | Creator: | Artist: Dutch (Leyden) School Æ Attributed to Previously attributed to Netscher, Caspar (Dutch painter, 1639-1684) | Identifier: | http://www.vads.ac.uk/large.php?uid=8638... | Go to resource |
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