Arnold Boonen, Caspar Netscher, oil on canvas.
"A Useless Moral Lesson" An allegory of chastity. 53 x 42 cm.
Wear. Crazed. Relined canvas. The canvas has been extended and retouched. Minor loss of paint.
Compare with "A Useless Moral Lesson", c. 1690 in the collection of Mauritshuis.
Arnold Boonen was a pupil of Arnold Verbuys and Godfried Schalcken. Boonen was inspired by both Schalcken and fellow artist Caspar Netscher.