Details
After Gerard ter Borch II
An elegant lady reading a letter with a man standing by
oil on canvas
50 x 38.2 cm.
Provenance
Collection Arthur Edwin Bye (according to the collector's wax seal and an old label on reverse).
Charles Crerie, London, since 1816, and by descent to
J. Clayton-Crerie, London.
Anonymous sale; Christie's, London, 16 December 1921, lot 61.
with Agnew, London, 1921.
with W.E. Duits, London, 1921.
with F. Rothman, Berlin, 1925-32.
with W.E. Duits, Amsterdam, 1933.
with Gebr. Douwes, Amsterdam.
Literature
T. Borrenius, Country Life, 19 July 1924.
W. von Bode, Repertorium für Kunstwissenschaft, XLVI, 1925, III, p. 118, illustrated, as G. ter Borch.
S.J. Gudlaugsson, Katalog der Gemälde Gerard Ter Borchs, The Hague, 1960, II, p. 153, no. 142f.
Exhibited
London, 1863, no. 6.
Berlin, Akademie, Gemälde alter Meister aus Berliner Besitz, 1925, no. 384.
Baltimore, 1929 (according to a label on reverse).
Deventer, Stedelijk Museum De Waag, circa 1960.
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