Gerard ter Borch the Younger

Terborch II, Gerard
Borch, Gerard ter II

Dutch, 1617 - 1681

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Gerard ter Borch the Younger, Maria van Suchtelen, c. 1666, oil on canvas, Corcoran Collection (William A. Clark Collection), 2014.136.47

Maria van Suchtelen

Gerard ter Borch the Younger · c. 1666 · oil on canvas ·  Accession ID  2014.136.47

Gerard ter Borch the Younger, Gerhard van Suchtelen, c. 1666, oil on canvas, Corcoran Collection (William A. Clark Collection), 2014.136.48

Gerhard van Suchtelen

Gerard ter Borch the Younger · c. 1666 · oil on canvas ·  Accession ID  2014.136.48

A man bows to a woman as another man looks on from the shadowy background, while a woman sitting at a table plays a lute in this vertical painting. All the people have pale skin. The bowing man enters from an open door to our left. He faces our right in profile and has a bumped nose, a dark mustache, and his brown hair falls loosely over his shoulders. He wears a voluminous, black jacket that has a wide white collar and flat, plate-like, starched white cuffs. He bends forward with one foot stretched in front of him, as he gazes at the woman to our right. His hands are spread wide. His left forefinger and thumb touch to make an O shape, and he holds a wide-brimmed, black hat in his right hand, closer to us. At the center of the composition, the woman wears a dress with a coral-pink bodice and a cream-white satin skirt trimmed with gold down the front and around the hem. She faces our left in profile and looks at the man, her cheeks flushed. Her eyebrows are slightly raised over dark eyes, and she has a straight nose and the hint of a double chin. Her blond hair is pulled back under a lace covering, and curls frame her face. A black ribbon is tied into a bow at the shoulder closer to us. A brown and white dog, about knee-high, stands between the man and woman. To our right, a young woman sits at the far side of a table playing a lute. She wears a sapphire-blue dress and looks down at her instrument. One elbow is propped on the patterned rug that covers the table. A second instrument, perhaps a cello, lies on the table, and a wooden chair with a pine-green upholstered seat has been pulled up to our side of the table. Almost lost in the shadows at the back of the room between the two women, a man with a goatee and wearing a brown jacket and trousers stands with his body angled to our right as he looks over his shoulder at the couple at the door. He stands in front of a fireplace with an opening so large that the mantle is supported by columns as tall as the man.
Gerard ter Borch the Younger, The Suitor's Visit, c. 1658, oil on canvas, Andrew W. Mellon Collection, 1937.1.58

The Suitor's Visit

Gerard ter Borch the Younger · c. 1658 · oil on canvas ·  Accession ID  1937.1.58

Gesina ter Borch, Gerard ter Borch the Younger, Moses ter Borch Holding a Kolf Stick, c. 1655, oil on panel, The Lee and Juliet Folger Fund, 2022.106.1

Moses ter Borch Holding a Kolf Stick

Gesina ter Borch, Gerard ter Borch the Younger · c. 1655 · oil on panel ·  Accession ID  2022.106.1

Cornelis Ploos van Amstel, Cornelis Brouwer, Cavalier and Lady with a Page, 1779, published 1781, aquatint with etching printed in red-brown ink on laid paper, Gift of Sherwood B. Smith, Jr., 1977.67.35

Cavalier and Lady with a Page

Cornelis Ploos van Amstel, Cornelis Brouwer · 1779, published 1781 · aquatint with etching printed in red-brown ink on laid paper ·  Accession ID  1977.67.35

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Cavalier and Lady with a Page

Cornelis Ploos van Amstel, Cornelis Brouwer, Christian Josi · 1779, published 1821 · aquatint with etching printed in red-brown ink ·  Accession ID  1974.6.1.36

Cornelis Ploos van Amstel, Bernhard Schreuder, Hog Slaughterers, 1778, published 1787, etching, roulette, and mezzotint with burnishing printed in black ink on laid paper, Gift of Sherwood B. Smith, Jr., 1977.67.30

Hog Slaughterers

Cornelis Ploos van Amstel, Bernhard Schreuder · 1778, published 1787 · etching, roulette, and mezzotint with burnishing printed in black ink on laid paper ·  Accession ID  1977.67.30

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Hog Slaughterers

Cornelis Ploos van Amstel, Bernhard Schreuder, Christian Josi · 1778, published 1821 · etching, roulette, and mezzotint with burnishing printed in black ink on laid paper ·  Accession ID  1974.6.1.7

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Recueil d'estampes gravées d'après les tableaux du cabinet de Monsieur le duc De Choiseul

Pierre-François Basan, Various Artists, Pierre-Charles Baquoy, Louis Binet, Robert Daudet, Remi-Henri-Joseph Delvaux, Balthasar Anton Dunker, Louis Germain, Carl Guttenberg, Louis-Michel Halbou, Francois-Robert Ingouf, Nicolas Delaunay, Jacques Philippe LeBas, Pierre Charles Levesque, Jean Baptiste Liénard, Charles Louis Lingée, Joseph-C. Maillet, Pierre Maleuvre, Pietro Antonio Martini, Louis-Joseph Masquelier, Jean Massard, Philippe Louis Parizeau, Charles Emmanuel Patas, Nicolas Ponce, Noël Pruneau, Antoine Louis Romanet, Jean Francois Rousseau, Gabriel de Saint-Aubin, Vény, Carl Wilhelm Weisbrod, B. A. Wieilh, Pierre-Philippe Choffard, Charles Emmanuel Patas, Carl Wilhelm Weisbrod, Remi-Henri-Joseph Delvaux, Jeanne Deny, Philippe Louis Parizeau · 1771 · bound volume with engraved table of contents and 124 etching and engravings on laid paper ·  Accession ID  1943.16.1

A woman wearing a pale yellow silk dress sits playing a lute in front of a table while a man, wearing a black suit and hat, stands behind her in this vertical painting. Both have light skin. The woman sits facing our right in profile as she looks at pages of sheet music propped on a wooden tabletop stand on the table in front of her. Her light brown hair is pulled back in a braid looped into a bun, and a few curly tendrils fall alongside her ears. She has a pointed nose, full cheeks, and a receding chin beneath closed lips. Light gleams off her pale, golden yellow jacket and skirt. The jacket has elbow-length sleeves and is lined with white fur, and her long skirt has a band of deep gold embroidery and possibly beading down the front and along the bottom hem. She rests one foot on a low wooden box, and the other is covered by her skirt. She sits in a straight-backed chair with a wine-red, upholstered back. The table in front of her, to our right, is covered with a burgundy-red cloth. Near the music stand are a small book with a brown cover, a silver, oval-shaped box, a silver candlestick holding a white, unlit candle, and a bunched up white cloth. Behind her, the man stands with his left hand, on our right, lifted over the sheet music. He tips his head forward to look down at the woman or her lute. He has thick, shoulder-length, wavy brown hair and a goatee. He wears a tall, brimmed, black hat, and there are ruffles of white fabric at his neck and the cuffs of his long sleeves. The room has a brown floor and smoke-gray walls. A door opens a little into the room to our left, behind the pair.
Anonymous Artist, The Music Lesson, c. 1670, oil on canvas, Timken Collection, 1960.6.10

The Music Lesson

Anonymous Artist · c. 1670 · oil on canvas ·  Accession ID  1960.6.10

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1753

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1829

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1907

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1943

  • Hannema, Fr. Gerard Terborch. Amsterdam, 1943.

1944

  • Plietzsch, Eduard. Gerard ter Borch. Vienna, 1944.

1959

  • Gudlaugsson, Sturla. Geraert ter Borch. 2 vols. The Hague, 1959-1960.

1974

  • Gerard Ter Borch: Zwolle 1617 - Deventer 1681. Exh. cat. Mauritshuis, The Hague; Landesmuseum, Münster. The Hague, 1974.

1984

  • Sutton, Peter C. Masters of Seventeenth-Century Dutch Genre Painting. Edited by Jane Iandola Watkins. Exh. cat. Philadelphia Museum of Art; Gemäldegalerie, Staatliche Museen Preussischer Kulturbesitz, Berlin; Royal Academy of Arts, London. Philadelphia, 1984: 152-154.

1988

  • Kettering, Alison McNeil. Drawings from the Ter Borch studio estate. 2 vols. Catalogue of the Dutch and Flemish Drawings in the Rijksprentenkabinet 5. The Hague, 1988.

1991

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1995

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2004

  • Wheelock, Arthur K., Jr. Gerard ter Borch. Exh. cat. National Gallery of Art, Washington; Detroit Institute of Arts. New Haven, 2004: 2-17.