Gerard ter Borch: The Curious
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| Artist |
Gerard ter Borch
(1617–1681)  |
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| Alternative names |
Gerard Terborch |
| Description |
Dutch painter, drawer and miniaturist |
| Date of birth/death |
1617  |
8 December 1681 |
| Location of birth/death |
Zwolle |
Deventer |
| Work period |
from 1625 until 1681 date QS:P,+1650-00-00T00:00:00Z/7,P580,+1625-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P582,+1681-00-00T00:00:00Z/9 |
| Work location |
Amsterdam (1632–1633), Zwolle (1633–1634), Haarlem (1634–1635), London (1635–1636), Zwolle (1636), Italy (1637–1648), France (1637–1648), Münster (1648), Deventer (1654–1681), Amsterdam (1674), The Hague (1675), Haarlem (1675) |
| Authority file |
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creator QS:P170,Q346808 | |
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| Title |
Curiosity title QS:P1476,en:"Curiosity " label QS:Len,"Curiosity " label QS:Lhu,"Kiváncsiság"
label QS:Lnl,"Drie jonge vrouwen rond een tafel in een interieur" |
| Object type |
painting |
| Genre |
genre art |
| Date |
1660 |
| Medium |
oil on canvas |
| Dimensions |
height: 76.2 cm (30 in) ; width: 62.2 cm (24.4 in) dimensions QS:P2048,+76.2U174728 dimensions QS:P2049,+62.2U174728 |
| Collection |
institution QS:P195,Q160236
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| Accession number |
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| Object history |
| Provenance:
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- Gaillard de Gagny, Paris (his estate sale, Paris, March 29, 1762, no. 15, for Fr 3,600 to Randon de Boisset);
- Pierre-Louis-Paul Randon de Boisset, Paris (1762–77;
- his estate sale, Paris, February 27–March 25, 1777, no. 52, for Fr 10,000 to Lebrun);
- [Lebrun, Paris, from 1777];
- Monsieur Robit (until 1801;
- his sale, Paillet and Delaroche, Paris, May 11, 1801, no. 151, for Fr 9,000 to Bonnemaison);
- [Bonnemaison, Paris, from 1801];
- duchesse de Berri, Palais de L'Elysée, Paris (by 1833–37;
- her sale, Paillet, Paris, April 4–6, 1837, no. 2, for Fr 15,200 to Demidoff);
- Anatole Demidoff, principe di San Donato, Palais de San Donato, near Florence (1837–68;
- his sale, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, April 18, 1868, no. 19, for Fr 71,000 to Seillière);
- baron Achille Seillière, Paris (from 1868);
- princesse de Sagan, Paris (in 1883);
- Freifrau Mathilde von Rothschild, Grünburg, near Frankfurt-am-Main (by 1912–d. 1924);
- her son-in-law, Freiherr Max B. H. Goldschmidt, Frankfurt-am-Main (from 1924; sold to Duveen);
- [Duveen, Paris, London, and New York, until 1927;
- sold for $175,000 to Bache]
- Jules S. Bache, New York (1927–d. 1944;
- his estate, 1944–49;
- cats., 1929, unnumbered;
- 1937, no. 39; 1943, no. 38)
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| Exhibition history |
| Exhibition history
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- London. Christie's. "A Catalogue of the Matchless Collection of Dutch and Flemish Pictures of His Late Royal Highness the Duke de Berri," April 1834, no. 15 [for sale by private contract, but no one meeting the price asked, was not sold].
- Paris. Galerie Georges Petit. "Cent chefs-d'œuvre des collections parisiennes," June 12–?, 1883, no. 126 (lent by Mme la princesse de Sagan).
- London. Royal Academy of Arts. "Exhibition of Dutch Art 1450–1900," January 4–March 9, 1929, no. 231 (lent by Jules S. Bache).
- New York. World's Fair. "Masterpieces of Art: European Paintings and Sculpture from 1300–1800," May–October 1939, no. 367 (lent by Jules S. Bache).
- New York. Duveen Galleries. "Paintings by the Great Dutch Masters of the Seventeenth Century," October 8–November 7, 1942, no. 63 (lent by the Bache collection).
- New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "The Bache Collection," June 16–September 30, 1943, no. 38.
- Kansas City, Mo. William Rockhill Nelson Gallery of Art. "Twenty-fifth Anniversary Exhibition," December 11–28, 1958, no catalogue?
- Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. "Masterpieces of Painting in The Metropolitan Museum of Art," September 16–November 1, 1970, unnumbered cat. (p. 46).
- New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "Masterpieces of Fifty Centuries," November 15, 1970–February 15, 1971, no. 281.
- The Hague. Mauritshuis. "Gerard ter Borch," March 9–April 28, 1974, no. 44.
- Münster. Westfälisches Landesmuseum für Kunst und Kulturgeschichte. "Gerard ter Borch," May 12–June 23, 1974, no. 44.
- Philadelphia Museum of Art. "Masters of Seventeenth-Century Dutch Genre Painting," March 18–May 13, 1984, no. 12.
- Gemäldegalerie, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin. "Masters of Seventeenth-Century Dutch Genre Painting," June 8–August 12, 1984, no. 12.
- London. Royal Academy of Arts. "Masters of Seventeenth-Century Dutch Genre Painting," September 7–November 18, 1984, no. 12.
- Athens. National Gallery Alexandros Soutzos Museum. "From El Greco to Cézanne: Masterpieces of European Painting from the National Gallery of Art, Washington, and The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York," December 13, 1992–April 11, 1993, no. 16.
- Washington. National Gallery of Art. "Gerard ter Borch," November 7, 2004–January 30, 2005, no. 35.
- Detroit Institute of Arts. "Gerard ter Borch," February 27–May 22, 2005, no. 35.
- Amsterdam. Rijksmuseum. "Schitterend Satijn: Het Beste van Gerard ter Borch," June 10–September 4, 2005, no catalogue.
- New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "The Age of Rembrandt: Dutch Paintings in The Metropolitan Museum of Art," September 18, 2007–January 6, 2008, no catalogue.
- Rome. Scuderie del Quirinale. "Vermeer: il secolo d'oro dell'arte olandese," September 27, 2012–January 20, 2013, no. 4.
- Kyoto Municipal Museum of Art. "Vermeer and Rembrandt: The Masters of the 17th Century Dutch Golden Age," October 24, 2015–January 5, 2016, no. 42.
- Tokyo. Mori Arts Center Gallery. "Vermeer and Rembrandt: The Masters of the 17th Century Dutch Golden Age," January 14–March 31, 2016, no. 42.
- Fukushima Prefectural Museum of Art. "Vermeer and Rembrandt: The Masters of the 17th Century Dutch Golden Age," April 6–May 8, 2016, no. 42.
- New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "In Praise of Painting: Dutch Masterpieces at The Met," October 16, 2018–October 4, 2020, no catalogue.
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| References |
- Dutch Paintings in The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Volume I and II, 17
- Gerard ter Borch catalog raisonné, 1913, 169
- Gerard ter Borch exhibition 2004/05, 35
- Gerard Ter Borch, Zwolle 1617 - Deventer 1681, 44
- Gerard ter Borch catalogue raisonné, 1944, 56
- Catalogue de vingt-trois tableaux de San Donato, 18 Avril, 1868, 19
- Gerard Terburg catalogue raisonné, 1833, 6
- https://www.wga.hu/html/t/terborch/2/curiosit.html
- The Met object ID: 435714
- RKDimages ID: 245809
- Artstor artwork ID: 18689885
- Heilbrunn Timeline of Art History
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| Source/Photographer |
Web Gallery of Art:  Image  Info about artwork |
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