Gerard ter Borch

An Officer Writing a Letter



Gerard ter Borch - An Officer Writing a Letter



Gerard ter Borch
An Officer Writing a Letter
c. 1657-58
41 x 28 cm
Oil on oak panel
Muzeum Narodowe, Warsaw


Literature

Catalogues raisonnés
Gudlaugsson 129


Exhibitions

2014 Rembrandt and the Dutch Golden Age, Nr. 140

Provenance

Probably in Royal Saxon Collection in the eighteenth century
Stanislaw Augustus Poniatowski (1732-1798), king of Poland, Warsaw, acquired before 1783
his brother, Józef Poniatowski (1763-1813), by inheritance
his sister, Maria Teresa Tyszkiewiczowa (1760-1834), by inheritance
Alexander I, czar of Russia and king of Poland, purchased from the latter in 1817 and kept in Lazienki Palace, Warsaw
by descent
transferred to Russia, c. 1914
restituted to Lazienki Palace, Warsaw, 1922
looted by the German occupation authorities, 1939
restituted to Poland and transferred to the Muzeum Narodowe, Warsaw, 1945
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