Caspar Netscher
(Heidelberg(?) c. 1636/39 - 1684 The Hague)
A lady washing her hands
Panel, 49.3 x 40.3 cm
Signed and dated at lower left, on the chair: C. Netscher 1657
Netscher painted A lady washing her hands in 1657, when he was still working in Ter Borch's studio. Hand washing was a popular motif in seventeenth-century art and literature and was often used as a metaphor for purity and innocence - a notion with Christian origins.
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