GERARD TER BORCH II (ZWOLLE 1617-1681 DEVENTER)
GERARD TER BORCH II (ZWOLLE 1617-1681 DEVENTER)
GERARD TER BORCH II (ZWOLLE 1617-1681 DEVENTER)
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GERARD TER BORCH II (ZWOLLE 1617-1681 DEVENTER)

Portrait of a woman, in a black silk gown, beside a table with gloves, a fan and a pocket watch

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GERARD TER BORCH II (ZWOLLE 1617-1681 DEVENTER)
Portrait of a woman, in a black silk gown, beside a table with gloves, a fan and a pocket watch
oil on canvas
18 ½ x 15 in. (47 x 38.1 cm.)
Provenance
Karl Eduard von Liphart (1808-1891), Dorpat (Estonia), Bonn and Florence.
Frederick Bayley Pratt (1865-1945), Glen Cove, Long Island, and by descent to his daughter and son-in-law,
Helen Ladd Pratt (1899-1972) and Jesse Holladay Philbin (1890-01959), New York, and by whom consigned to the following,
with M. Knoedler and Co., New York, by 1947 (stock no. CA 2825), where acquired by the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, on 10 April 1947.
Literature
C. Hofstede de Groot, A Catalogue Raisonné of the Works of the Most Eminent Dutch Painters of the Seventeenth Century, London, V, 1913, p. 119, no. 380.
'Accessions November 15, 1946, through April 10, 1947,' Bulletin of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, June 1947, p. 45.
W.G. Constable, 'Department of Paintings,' Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Seventy-Second Annual Report. 1947, 1948, p. 43.
W.G. Constable, Summary Catalogue of European Paintings in Oil, Tempera and Pastel, Boston, 1955, p. 63.
S.J. Gudlaugsson, Katalog der Gemälde Gerard ter Borchs, sowie biographisches Material, The Hague, 1960, I, p. 374, fig. 244; II, pp. 218-219, no. 244.
A.R. Murphy, European Paintings in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston: An Illustrated Summary Catalogue, Boston, 1985, p. 24, illustrated.
A. McNeil Kettering, Drawings from the Ter Borch Studio Estate, Amsterdam, 1988, p. 645, under folio no. 89.
R. Bear, The Poetry of Everyday Life: Dutch Painting in Boston, exhibition catalogue, Boston, 2002, p. 46.

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Lot Essay

Although best known for his genre scenes, Gerard ter Borch the Younger also painted masterful, small-scale portraits. Sturla Gudlaugsson suggested the present painting could be a portrait of ter Borch's youngest sister, Jenneken, as the portrait was copied by Gesina ter Borch in a now-famous sketchbook, next to other portraits of the ter Borch family (loc. cit.). The identification of the sitter has since been questioned, as Gesina's other portraits of Jenneken depict her with blonde hair (see McNeil Kettering, loc. cit.).

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