LOT DETAILS

Materials:

oil on panel

Measurements:

22.01 in. (55.90 cm.) (height) by 17.40 in. (44.20 cm.) (width)

Condition:

In an early seventeenth-century, Dutch, ebony, cassetta frame (supplied by Wiggins, ref. 11322).

Exhibited:

Venice, Palazzo Fortuny, In-Finitum: L'Infinito del non-finito, 6 June-15 November 2009, no. 89.

Literature:

E. Buijsen, Onder de Huid van Oude Meesters: zeventiende-eeuwse schilderijen onderzocht met infraroodreflectografie, Zwolle, 2001, pp. 10-11, no. 4, illustrated. A.K. Wheelock, Jr., 'The artistic development of Gerard ter Borch', in A.K. Wheelock, Jr., ed., with A. McNeil Kettering, A. Wallert and M.E. Wieseman, Gerard ter Borch, New Haven and London, 2004, pp. 12-13, fig. 10. K. van der Stighelen, Hoofd en bijzaak: Portretkunst in Vlaanderen van 1420 tot nu, Leuven and Zwolle, 2008, pp. 161 and 163, illustrated. '"In-Finitum": Parfaitement inachevé', Point de Vue, LXIII, 9 September 2009, pp. 3 and 44-8, illustrated.

Provenance:

with Arnold Seligmann, Rey & Co., Inc., New York, from whom acquired by. Jacques-Léon Stern (1882-1949), French statesman and minister, Park Avenue, New York; (+) Parke-Bernet, New York, 3-4 November 1950, lot 38, as 'Gerard Terborch', citing a certificate of 27 June 1941 by Wilhelm Valentiner, 'A very interesting work by Gerard Terborch..'. Anonymous sale [Mme X..]; Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 13 June 1956, lot 30, as 'Attributed to Gerard ter Borch'. Anonymous sale [Collection de Monsieur et Madame B.]; Piasa, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 13 June 1997, lot 34, as 'Attributed to Thomas de Keyser'. with Emanuel Moatti, Paris, from whom acquired at The European Fine Art Fair, Maastricht, on 9 March 1998, by. Pieter and Olga Dreesmann (inventory no. B5).