Literature

Catalogues raisonnés
HdG 28
Gudlaugsson 99

Collection catalogues
Compiled by Quentin Buvelot, Royal Picture Gallery Mauritshuis, The Hague; Zwolle, 2004, pp. 72-73

Literature
Christopher Brown, Scenes of everyday life, London; Boston, 1984, p. 76
Wayne Franits, Dutch Seventeenth-Century Genre Painting, New Haven, 2004, fig. 223
Edwin Buijsen, The Young Vermeer, The Hague; Zwolle, 2010, fig. 5
Pennen over penselen, Den Haag; Zwolle, 2022, pp. 40-41

Exhibitions

2004 Gerard ter Borch, Nr. 23

Provenance

Petronella de la Court, Amsterdam, 1707
Govert van Slingelandt, The Hague, 1752
the entire collection sold to Willem V in 1768
Prince Willem V, The Hague, 1768-1795
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External links

RKD 24661
Mauritshuis, The Hague Accession number 176

Other works by Gerard ter Borch

The Consultation
1635

A Woman Washing her Hands
c. 1655

Woman combing a child's hair
c. 1652-53

Officer writing a letter
c. 1658/59

Glass of lemonade
c. 1663/64