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image of The Suitor's Visit
Gerard ter Borch the Younger (painter)
Dutch, 1617 - 1681
The Suitor's Visit, c. 1658
oil on canvas
Overall: 80 x 75 cm (31 1/2 x 29 1/2 in.) framed: 110.8 x 106 x 12.7 cm (43 5/8 x 41 3/4 x 5 in.)
Andrew W. Mellon Collection
1937.1.58
From the Tour: Johannes Vermeer and Dutch Scenes of Daily Life in the 1600s
Object 6 of 8

1863Lagrange, Léon. "La Galerie de M. Le Duc De Morny." Gazette des Beaux-Arts 14 (April 1863): 289-306, repro.
1939McCall, George Henry. Masterpieces of Art: European Paintings and Sculptures from 1300-1800. Exh. cat. New York World's Fair, New York, 1939: no. 369.
1941Duveen 1941, fig. 208.
1941Preliminary Catalogue of Paintings and Sculpture. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1941: 191.
1942Book of Illustrations. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1942: 240, repro. 32.
1944Plietzsch, Eduard. Gerard ter Borch. Vienna, 1944.
1948Gudlaugsson, Sturla J. "De datering van de schilderijen van Gerard Ter Borch." Nederlands Kunsthistorisch Jaarboek 2 (1948-1949): 235-267.
1949Paintings and Sculpture from the Mellon Collection. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1949 (reprinted 1953 and 1958): 91, repro.
1952Cairns, Huntington and John Walker, eds., Great Paintings from the National Gallery of Art. New York, 1952: 106, color repro.
1959Gudlaugsson, Sturla J. Geraert ter Borch. 2 vols. The Hague, 1959-1960: 1(1959):116-119, repro. 119, 296; 2(1960):147-148, no. 139.
1960Baird, Thomas P. Dutch Painting in the National Gallery of Art. Washington, D.C., 1960 (Booklet Number Seven in Ten Schools of Painting in the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.): 32, color repro.
1960The National Gallery of Art and Its Collections. Foreword by Perry B. Cott and notes by Otto Stelzer. National Gallery of Art, Washington (undated, 1960s): 25.
1963Walker, John. National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.. New York, 1963 (reprinted 1964 in French, German, and Spanish): 190, repro.
1965Haverkamp-Begemann, Egbert. "Terborch's Lady at Her Toilet." Art News (December 1965): 38-41, 62-63, fig. 8.
1965Summary Catalogue of European Paintings and Sculpture. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1965: 126.
1966Cairns, Huntington and John Walker, eds., A Pageant of Painting from the National Gallery of Art. 2 vols. New York, 1966: 1:250, color repro.
1968European Paintings and Sculpture, Illustrations. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1968: 113, repro.
1974Langemeyer, G., et al. Gerard ter Borch: Zwolle 1617-Deventer 1681. Exh. cat. Mauritshuis, The Hague; Landesmuseum, Münster. The Hague, 1974: 37.
1974Robinson, Franklin W. Gabriel Metsu (1629-1667): A Study of His Place in Dutch Genre Painting of the Golden Age. New York, 1974: 53-54.
1975European Paintings: An Illustrated Summary Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1975: 336, repro.
1975Walker, John. National Gallery of Art, Washington. New York, 1975: 284, color repro.
1979Watson, Ross. National Gallery of Art. London, 1979: 81, pl. 67, color repro.
1984Walker, John. National Gallery of Art, Washington. (rev. ed.) New York, 1984: 284, no. 371, color repro.
1984Wheelock, Jr., Arthur K. Dutch Painting in the National Gallery of Art. Washington, D.C., 1984: 30-31, color repro.
1985European Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1985: 387, repro.
1987Smith, David R. "Irony and Civility: Notes on the Convergence of Genre and Portraiture in Seventeenth-Century Dutch Painting." The Art Bulletin 69 (September 1987): 423-424, repro.
1991Roodenburg, Herman. "The 'hand of friendship': shaking hands and other gestures in the Dutch Republic." In A Cultural History of Gesture from Antiquity to the Present Day, Jan Bremmer and Herman Roodenburg, eds., Cambridge, 1991: 152-189, fig. 7.1.
1991Ydema, Onno. Carpets and Their Datings in Netherlandish Paintings, 1540-1700. Zutphen, 1991: 188, no. 860.
1992National Gallery of Art, Washington. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1992: 133, repro.
1993Kettering, Alison McNeil. "Ter Borch's Ladies in Satin." Art History 16 (march 1993): 97, repro.
1995Stokstad, Marilyn. Art History. New York, 1995: 795, fig. 19-55, repro. (Rev. ed. 1999: 794-795, fig. 19-52, repro.)
1995Wheelock, Jr., Arthur K. Dutch Paintings of the Seventeenth Century. The Collections of the National Gallery of Art Systematic Catalogue. Washington, D.C., 1995: 26-28, color repro. 29.

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