On December 8, 1681, Gerard ter Borch, the Dutch genre painter of the Dutch Golden Age, is born. Ter Borch is a significant painter of genre subjects. He is known for his rendering of texture in draperies, for example in The Letter and in The Gallant Conversation, engraved by Johann Georg Wille. Ter Borchs works are comparatively rare; about eighty have been catalogued. Six of these are at the Hermitage, six at the Berlin Museum, five at the Louvre, four at the Dresden Museum, three at the Getty Center, and two at the Wallace Collection. A pair of portraits are located at the Corcoran Gallery in Washington D.C., highlighted in 2010 by Blake Gopnik. The artists painting The Suitors Visit, c. 1658, oil on canvas, in the Andrew W. Mellon Collection, was used on the cover of Marilyn Stokstads second edition of Art History.
Posted on: Mon, 08 Dec 2014 17:34:11 +0000
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