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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
On View
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.
1937Jewell, Edward Alden. "Mellon's Gift." Magazine of Art 30, no. 2 (February 1937): 82.
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.
1949L. J. Roggeveen. "De National Gallery of Art te Washington." Phoenix 4, no. 12 (December 1949): 339, repro.
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.
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.
1960Gudlaugsson, Sturla J. Geraert ter Borch. 2 vols. The Hague, 1959-1960: 1(1959):116-119, repro. 119, 296; 2(1960):147-148, no. 139.
1962Grinten, Evert F. van der. "Le cachalot et le mannequin: deux facettes de la réalité dans l’art hollandais du seizième et du dix-septième siècles." Nederlands kunsthistorisch jaarboek 13 (1962): 168-172, fig. 20, 21.
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 (Companion to the Summary Catalogue, 1965). Washington, 1968: 113, no. 58, repro.
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.
1974Langemeyer, G., et al. Gerard ter Borch: Zwolle 1617-Deventer 1681. Exh. cat. Mauritshuis, The Hague; Landesmuseum, Münster. The Hague, 1974: 37.
1975Walker, John. National Gallery of Art, Washington. New York, 1975: 284, color repro.
1975European Paintings: An Illustrated Summary Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1975: 336, repro.
1979Watson, Ross. National Gallery of Art. London, 1979: 81, pl. 67, color repro.
1984Wheelock, Jr., Arthur K. Dutch Painting in the National Gallery of Art. Washington, D.C., 1984: 30-31, color repro.
1984Walker, John. National Gallery of Art, Washington. Rev. ed. New York, 1984: 284, no. 371, 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." Art Bulletin 69 (September 1987): 423-424, repro.
1991Ydema, Onno. Carpets and Their Datings in Netherlandish Paintings, 1540-1700. Zutphen, 1991: 188, no. 860.
1991Roodenburg, Herman. "The 'hand of friendship': shaking hands and other gestures in the Dutch Republic." In A Cultural History of Gesture, Jan Bremmer and Herman Roodenburg, eds. Ithaca, 1991: 152-189, fig. 7.1.
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.
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.
1995Stokstad, Marilyn. Art History. New York, 1995: 795, fig. 19-55, repro. (Rev. ed. 1999: 794-795, fig. 19-52, repro.)
2004Hand, John Oliver. National Gallery of Art: Master Paintings from the Collection. Washington and New York, 2004: 203, no. 161, color repro.
2005Stokstad, Marilyn. Art History. Rev. 2nd ed., combined volume. Upper Saddle River, NJ, 2005: 777, color fig. 19-65, title page, cover.
2010Gustin Gomez, Clémentine. L’avènement du plaisir dans la peinture française, de Le Brun à Watteau. Dijon, 2011: 276, color repro.

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