Gerard ter Borch

An Officer with a Woman Playing Lute



Gerard ter Borch - An Officer with a Woman Playing Lute



Gerard ter Borch
An Officer with a Woman Playing Lute
c. 1658
37 x 32.5 cm
Oil on panel
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Bequest of Benjamin Altman, 1913


Literature

Catalogues raisonnés
HdG 135, 152
Gudlaugsson 140

Collection catalogues
Walter Liedtke, Dutch paintings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, New Haven, 2007, nr. 15

Literature
Christopher Brown, Scenes of everyday life, London; Boston, 1984, p. 120
Lyckle de Vries, Verhalen uit kamer, keuken en kroeg, [Amsterdam], 2005, plate 42
Desmond Shawe-Taylor and Quentin Buvelot, Masters of the Everyday, London; Brussels, 2015, fig. 54
Aneta Georgievska-Shine, Vermeer and the Art of Love, London, 2022, fig. 16


Provenance

Willem Lormier, The Hague, by 1752
his sister, L. Lormier, Rotterdam, by 1754
agent of Willem Lormier, until 1763
his sale, The Hague, 4 July 1763, nr. 285, to Cocq
Abel François Poisson, marquis de Vandières, later marquis de Marigny, still later marquis de Ménars, Paris, until died 1781
his estate sale, Basan & Joullain, Paris, 18 March – 6 April 1782, nr. 108, to Le Brun
with Jean Baptiste Pierre Le Brun, Paris, from 1782
Charles d'Arverley, Paris, bequeathed to Calonne
Charles-Alexandre da Calonne, Paris, by 1788–95
sale, Paris, 21-30 April 1788, nr. 74, bought in
sale, Skinner & Dyke, London, 23-28 March 1795, nr. 32
William Wells, Redleaf, Kent, by 1829–at least 1876
Adolphe de Rothschild, London, in 1884
Francis Denzil Edward Baring, 5th Baron Ashburton, The Grange, Alresford, Hampshire and London, until 1907, sold to Agnew
with Agnew, London, 1907
with D.S. Hess & Co., New York, 1907–8, sold to Altman on 23 January 1908
Benjamin Altman, New York, 1908–died 1913

External links

RKD 224615
Metropolitan Museum of Art Accession number 14.40.617

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Young Woman playing a Theorbo to Two Men
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