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Artist:Gerard ter Borch the Younger (Dutch, Zwolle 1617–1681 Deventer)
Date:ca. 1660–62
Medium:Oil on canvas
Dimensions:30 x 24 1/2 in. (76.2 x 62.2 cm)
Classification:Paintings
Credit Line:The Jules Bache Collection, 1949
Accession Number:49.7.38
Three women of three different ages appear in a luxuriously appointed interior. The eldest, in the garb of a married woman, writes a letter while the youngest peers over her shoulder. The third woman, dressed in the radiant satin that made Ter Borch famous, appears pensive or lovelorn. Ter Borch was known for his "high life" genre scenes, in which an attention to opulent surfaces combined with a gift for suggestive arrangements of mostly female figures. The model for the curious young woman on the right was Ter Borch’s younger sister Gesina, herself an artist and poet.
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