An elegant lady reading a letter with a man standing by

細節

After Gerard ter Borch II
An elegant lady reading a letter with a man standing by
oil on canvas
50 x 38.2 cm.

來源

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.

出版

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.

展覽

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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拍品專文

The present composition is after the original in the Musée des Beaux-Arts, Lyon. Cornelis Hofstede de Groot considered this picture superior to the one in Lyon when he saw it at Agnew's, Gudlaugsson rightly points out that the latter is the original (see S.J. Gudlaugsson, op. cit.).