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- Gerard ter Borch (1617 - 1681)
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- Place of Birth: Zwolle, The Netherlands
- Place of Death: Deventer, The Netherlands
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- Gerard ter Borch (1617 - 1681)
- A Lady dressing her Hair
- Netherlands
- c. 1657 - c. 1658
- P235
- East Galleries II
- Bookmarkable URLA Lady dressing her Hair is invested with emblematic associations of fidelity, vanity and transience. The subject in the picture is given added resonance by the unlit candle which, according to the emblem books written by Jacob Cats and Otto Van Veen, symbolizes the nature of love, which may be kindled in an instant. The complicit look of the maid who stands behind the lady adds a further element of intrigue.
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- Gerard ter Borch (1617 - 1681)
- A Lady reading a Letter
- Netherlands
- c. 1665
- P236
- East Galleries II
- Bookmarkable URLTer Borch is credited with inventing the high-life interior genre scene, which became popular in Holland in the third quarter of the seventeenth-century. A young woman, modelled on ter Borch’s sister Gesina, sits at a table, its carpet covering pushed aside to allow her to work. Young people reading or writing letters in Dutch paintings of the period are invariably indicators of amorous intrigue. Here, the distracting power of love is suggested by the woman’s neglect of her proper household duties. This picture, one of ter Borch’s masterpieces, is remarkable for its subtle light and shadow and the artist’s confident use of colour. It is hardly surprising that a connoisseur of female beauty such as the 4th Marquess of Hertford, who acquired it in 1848, should have been attracted to such an image.
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