Woman in Peasant Costume

• Woman in Peasant Costume
• Seated Girl in Peasant Costume. Probably Gesina (1631-1690), the Painters Half-Sister

Seated Girl in Peasant Costume. Probably Gesina (1631-1690), the Painters Half-Sister

SK-A-4038

Ter Borch probably depicted his half-sister Gesina ter Borch here. She, too, was an artist, and frequently modelled for him. In the 17th century, her appearance, with her gathered plaits and a red hairband, would immediately identify her as an unmarried country girl. She is holding a printed sheet of paper, from which she briefly glances up.

Cat.tent. Meisterwerke Hollänische Malerei des 16. bis 18. Jahrhunderts, Bazel 1945, nr. 98

painter: Gerard ter Borch (II)

c. 1650 - c. 1660

olieverf op paneel

height 28 cm x width 23 cm

De Bruijn-van der Leeuw Bequest, Muri, Switzerland

bequest 1961

Public domain

• Cat.tent. Meisterwerke Hollänische Malerei des 16. bis 18. Jahrhunderts, Bazel 1945, nr. 98
• M.G.A. Schipper-van Lottum, Een maijmantgen met een naijcussen, Antiek X (1975), p. 137
• H. van Hall, Amsterdam 1963, p. 36, cat.nr. 227:5

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