Gerard ter Borch - Curiosity



Gerard ter Borch
Curiosity
c. 1660-61
76.3 x 62.3 cm.
Oil on canvas
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
The Jules Bache Collection, 1949


Literature

Catalogues raisonnés
HdG 169
Gudlaugsson 164

Collection catalogues
Walter Liedtke, Dutch paintings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, New Haven, 2007, nr. 17

Literature
Wayne Franits, Dutch Seventeenth-Century Genre Painting, New Haven, 2004, fig. 93
Adriaan E. Waiboer, Gabriel Metsu, New Haven and London, 2010, fig. 48
Aneta Georgievska-Shine, Vermeer and the Art of Love, London, 2022, fig. 17
Linda Stone-Ferrier, The little street, New Haven, 2022, fig. 54


Exhibitions

2004 Gerard ter Borch, Nr. 35

Provenance

Gaillard de Gagny, Paris
his estate sale, Paris, 29 March 1762, nr. 15, to Randon de Boisset
Pierre-Louis-Paul Randon de Boisset, Paris, 1762–77
his estate sale, Paris, 27 February–25 March 1777, nr. 52, to Lebrun
with Lebrun, Paris, from 1777
Monsieur Robit, until 1801
his sale, Paillet and Delaroche, Paris, 11 May 1801, nr. 151, to Bonnemaison
with Bonnemaison, Paris, from 1801
duchesse de Berri, Palais de L'Elysée, Paris, by 1833–37
her sale, Paillet, Paris, 4-6 April 1837, nr. 2, to Demidoff
Anatole Demidoff, principe di San Donato, Palais de San Donato, near Florence, 1837–68
his sale, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 18 April 1868, nr. 19, to Seillière
baron Achille Seillière, Paris, from 1868
princesse de Sagan, Paris, in 1883
Freifrau Mathilde von Rothschild, Grünburg, near Frankfurt-am-Main, by 1912–died 1924
her son-in-law, Freiherr Max B. H. Goldschmidt, Frankfurt-am-Main, from 1924, sold to Duveen
with Duveen, Paris, London, and New York, until 1927, sold to Bache
Jules S. Bache, New York, 1927–d. 1944
his estate, 1944–49

External links

RKD 245809
Metropolitan Museum of Art Accession number 49.7.38

Other works by Gerard ter Borch


Gerard ter Borch Officer writing a letter
Officer writing a letter
c. 1658/59

Gerard ter Borch Lucretia Rouse, wife of the preacher Jan van Duren
Lucretia Rouse, wife of the preacher Jan van Duren
1680

Gerard ter Borch A boy caring for his dog
A boy caring for his dog
c. 1655

Gerard ter Borch Paternal Admonition
Paternal Admonition
1654/55

Gerard ter Borch The preacher Jan van Duren
The preacher Jan van Duren
1681