Gerard ter Borch

Officer writing a letter



Gerard ter Borch - Officer writing a letter



Gerard ter Borch
Officer writing a letter
c. 1658/59
56.8 x 43.8 cm
Oil on canvas
Signed lower right on table crosspiece: GT Borch (first three letters ligated)
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia
The William L. Elkins Collection, 1924


Literature

Catalogues raisonnés
HdG 31
Gudlaugsson 143

Collection catalogues
Peter C. Sutton, Northern European Paintings in the Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, 1990, nr. 10

Literature
Wayne Franits, Dutch Seventeenth-Century Genre Painting, New Haven, 2004, fig. 91
Aneta Georgievska-Shine, Vermeer and the Art of Love, London, 2022, fig. 23



Provenance

Possibly sale, Petronella de la Court, widow of Adam Oortmans, Amsterdam, 19 October 1707, nr. 31
Jan and Pieter Bisschop, Rotterdam as of 1752
after Jan's death collection sold as a whole to Adriaen and Jan Hope, Amsterdam
Henry Philip Hope, 1833
Henry Thomas Hope, 1854
Lord Francis Pelham Clinton Hope, London
the entire Hope Collection sold to P. & D. Colnaghi and A. Wertheimer, London, 1898
William L. Elkins Collection, Philadelphia, by 1900
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External links

Philadelphia Museum of Art Accession number E1924-3-21

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