Caspar Netscher
The Fortune Teller
Estimate: 60.000 - 80.000 GBP
Price realised: 274.000 GBP
Price realised: 274.000 GBP
Description
Caspar Netscher
HEIDELBERG (?) 1639 - 1684 THE HAGUE
THE FORTUNE TELLER
oil on canvas
59.5 x 51 cm.; 23 1/2 x 20 1/8 in.
Philippe, Duc d'Orleans (d. 1723), Palais-Royal, Paris, until 1791/2 when brought to England and offered for sale by private treaty; | Joseph Wilkinson, London; | By whom anonymously sold ('A Gentleman of Refined Taste, now about to retire into the country'), London, Christie's, 21 May 1816, lot 67, for £48, to Hildebrandt; | Colonel Le Blanc; | By whom anonymously sold, London, Christie's, 27 May 1820, lot 98, where unsold; | By whom re-offered
HEIDELBERG (?) 1639 - 1684 THE HAGUE
THE FORTUNE TELLER
oil on canvas
59.5 x 51 cm.; 23 1/2 x 20 1/8 in.
Philippe, Duc d'Orleans (d. 1723), Palais-Royal, Paris, until 1791/2 when brought to England and offered for sale by private treaty; | Joseph Wilkinson, London; | By whom anonymously sold ('A Gentleman of Refined Taste, now about to retire into the country'), London, Christie's, 21 May 1816, lot 67, for £48, to Hildebrandt; | Colonel Le Blanc; | By whom anonymously sold, London, Christie's, 27 May 1820, lot 98, where unsold; | By whom re-offered
Artwork auctioned at three times the upper estimate price
When the work The Fortune Teller by Caspar Netscher was auctioned at Sothebys in London in July 2018, the result exceeded expectations many times over. The upper estimate was set at a - in retrospect quite modest - GBP 80,000.00 but the actual price achieved was more than three times as high at GBP 274,000.00 (€ 307,214.25). Of course, this price has nothing to do with the top prices that other works by Caspar Netscher achieve. The highest price we have observed so far was reached by the work Woman Feeding A Parrot in June 2014 with an auction result of USD 5,093,000.00 (€ 3,720,233.75).
Kunstwerk zum Dreifachen des oberen Schätzpreises versteigert
Als die Arbeit The Fortune Teller von Caspar Netscher im Juli 2018 bei Sothebys in London versteigert wurde, übertraf das Ergebnis die Erwartungen um ein Vielfaches. Der obere Schätzpreis war mit – rückwirkend betrachtet recht bescheidenen – GBP 80.000,00 angesetzt, der tatsächlich erzielte Preis hingegen war mit GBP 274.000,00 (€ 307.214,25) mehr als dreimal so hoch. Dieser Preis hat freilich nichts mit den Spitzenpreisen zu tun, die andere Arbeiten von Caspar Netscher erzielen. Den höchsten von uns bisher beobachteten Preis erreichte die Arbeit Woman Feeding A Parrot im Juni 2014 mit einem Auktionsergebnis von USD 5.093.000,00 (€ 3.720.233,75).
Caspar Netscher - Auction history
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