Child Drawing or Writing, Harmen ter Borch, 1649
black chalk, h 146mm × w 106mm More details
The children in the Ter Borch family learned how to draw at a young age at home. Little Harmen too had a flair for this. He made this drawing ‘naet leve’ (from life) on 23 December 1649 – he was then a mere eleven years old. The sitter is probably his younger brother Moses, who rests his feet on a foot stove while writing or drawing.
