Gerard ter Borch II (Zwolle 1617-1681 Deventer)

Two studies of a woman washing a child

Details

Gerard ter Borch II (Zwolle 1617-1681 Deventer)
Two studies of a woman washing a child
with inscription 'G Ter Borch 1630' (in the hand of Gesina Ter Borch)
pen and brown ink, black ink framing lines
3 5/8 x 4¾ in. (9.6 x 12.2 cm.)

Literature

S.J. Gudlaugsson, Katalog der Gemälde Gerard ter Borchs sowie biographisches Material, The Hague, 1959-60, I, p. 17, illustrated p. 15.
A. McNeil Kettering, Catalogue of the Dutch and Flemish Drawings in the Rijksprentenkabinet, Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam: V: Drawings of the Ter Borch Studio Estate, 's-Gravenhage, 1988, II, Appendix 1, no. 16, illustrated p. 823, fig. 16.

Exhibited

Brussels, Palais des Beaux-Arts, Dessins hollandais de Jérôme Bosch à Rembrandt, 1937-38, no. 124 (catalogue by F. Schmidt-Degener).
Rotterdam, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Paris, Fondation Custodia, and Brussels, Bibliothèque Albert 1er, Le Cabinet d'un Amateur: Dessins flamands et hollandais des XVIe et XVIIe siècles d'une collection privée d'Amsterdam, 1976-77, no. 130, pl. 88 (catalogue by J. Giltaij).

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Lot Essay

Executed when the artist was only thirteen years old, this charming study seems to have been observed from life. The infant being briskly cleaned and changed by his nurse or mother is probably ter Borch's one-year-old half-brother Mattheijs. Despite the artist's youth the figures are drawn with swift, energetic strokes which give the drawing a tantalising sense of movement.

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