Memorial Portrait of Moses ter Borch, Gerard ter Borch (II), Gesina ter Borch, 1667 - 1669

Memorial Portrait of Moses ter Borch, Gerard ter Borch (II), Gesina ter Borch, 1667 - 1669

oil on canvas, h 76.2cm × w 56.5cm More details

Moses died in 1667 during the storming of Fort Languard near Felixstowe in England. Not long thereafter Gerard and Gesina painted this picture in memory of their youngest brother. Gerard painted Moses’ portrait, Gesina the background and the objects. These allude to Moses’ heroic death and the transience of life, such as time (the pocket watch), death (the skull), eternity (ivy on the rocks) and loyalty (the dogs).

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Identification

Title(s)

Memorial Portrait of Moses ter Borch
Memorial Portrait of Moses ter Borch (1645-1667)

Object type

painting

Object number

SK-A-4908

Inscriptions / marks

signature and date: ‘G. ter Borch’

Description

Portret ten voeten uit. Moses ter Borch is gekleed in zijn militair tenue. Hij staat, leunend op een wandelstok voor een gedeeltelijk begroeide rots. Links is iets van de achtergrond te zien. Om hem heen zijn diverse dieren en gebruiksvoorwerpen afgebeeld die naar zijn militaire carrière verwijzen of trouw en vergankelijkheid symboliseren (honden, schedel, wapenrusting, horloge, slang etc.).

Creation

Artist

painter: Gerard ter Borch (II)
painter: Gesina ter Borch

Dating

1667 - 1669

Material and Technique

Physical features

oil on canvas

Material

Technique

paint

Measurements

height 76.2 cm × width 56.5 cm

Subject

What

When

1667 - 1667

Where

Harwich

Who

Moses ter Borch

Acquisition and rights

Credit line

Purchased with the support of the Rijksmuseum-Stichting

Acquisition

purchase 12-Jan-1995

Copyright

Public domain

Provenance

? testament Gesina ter Borch (1630-90), Zwolle 16 (?) April 1690, (‘En zullen al mijn conterfeitsels, en van broeder Moses en van vader en moeder en bestevader en bestemoeder, … niet verkoft, maar voor de kinderen bewaart moeten worden’);{Houck 1899, p. 156.} …; collection Thomas Jefferson Bryan (1802-70), New York, 1853;{Coll. cat. New York 1853, p. 11, no. 147 (‘portrait of William, Prince of Orange and King of England’) Coll. cat. New York 1853b, p. 88, no. 147 (‘William, Prince of Orange’).} by whom donated to The New York Historical Society, 2 April 1867; periodically on loan to the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, c. 1979-94;{McNeil Kettering 1995, p. 317.} sale The New York Historical Society, New York (Sotheby’s), 12 January 1995, no. 33, $310,000 to the museum, with support from the Rijksmuseum-Stichting

Bibliography and list of abbreviations for the provenance (pdf)

Notes

Please note that this provenance was formulated with a special focus on provenance research for the years 1933-45 and could therefore be incomplete. There may be more (mostly earlier) provenance information known in the museum. In case this item has an uncertain or incomplete provenance for the years 1933-45, the Rijksmuseum welcomes information and assistance in the investigation and clarification of the provenance of all works during that era.

Documentation

De Gouden Eeuw van Gesina ter Borch, Marjan Brouwer, p. 27 (afb.)
Ludolf Backhuysen : Emden 1630 - Amsterdam 1708, p. 22-45, afb. 2
Zeeslagen en zeehelden in de Gouden Eeuw, afb. 141
De historische sensatie : het Rijksmuseum geschiedenisboek, p. 82-85
Gerard ter Borch [ : 1 2004a], Alison MacNeil Kettering, Arie Wallert, Arthur K. Wheelock (jr.), Marjorie Elizabeth Wieseman, cat.nr. 46
Tableaux flamands et hollandais du Musée Fabre de Montpellier, Quentin Buvelot, Michel Hilaire, Olivier Zeder, p. 114, 115 + afb.
Zwolle in de Gouden Eeuw : cultuur en schilderkunst, Lydie van Dijk, Jean C. Streng, cat.nr. 10 + afb.
Drawings from the Ter Borch studio estate, p. 642, noot 1, p. 644, noot 1
A guide to Dutch art in America, Peter C. Sutton, p. 177 + afb. 253
Geraert Ter Borch, p. 360
Geraert Ter Borch, p. 208, 209
Mozes ter Borch als sujet van zijn broer Gerard, p. 37, cat.nr. 2
Het Portret van Moses ter Borch door Gerard en Gesina ter Borch, Alison MacNeil Kettering
Kolders : van modieus militair kledingstuk tot slagveldreliek, Eveline Sint Nicolaas, Harm Stevens, afb. 13
De belangrijkste aanwinsten, tentoonstellingen en andere gebeurtenissen : 18 september 1989 - 1 december 1996 = The most important acquisitions, exhibitions and other events : 18 September 1989 - 1 December 1996, Kees Schoemaker, p. 303-304, afb. 28
Kunstschrift, 2005, nr. 3 [gewijd aan Ter Borch]
The Burlington Magazine (nov. 1996), p. 779 + afb.
J. Verbeek, 'Tekeningen van de familie Terborch', Antiek (1966) nr. 2, p. 37, 39 + afb.
S.J. Gudlaugsson, 'Einige Ausnahmefälle in der Bildnisgestaltung Ter Borches', Festschrift Friedrich Winckler (1959), p. 309, ill. 5.
Hofstede de Groot, vol. 5, p. 92, nr. 276 [als mogelijk Willem III].
Catalogue NY Historical Society 1915, p. 79, nr. B-182.
Mogelijk M.E. Houck, Mededelingen...ter Borch, Verslagen...Overijsselsch Regt en Geschiedenis 1899, p. 156.
E.W. Moes, 'Gerard ter Borch en zijn familie', Oud Holland (1886), p. 156 (ill.), p. 162-164.
A.A. Turner, Lights and Shadows of New York Picture Galleries. Forty photographs, New York 1864, p. XVI [William of Orange. G. Terburg. In the Gallery of Thomas J. Bryan, Esq. (Frick coll number: O31//Y87)].
Catalogue of the Bryan Gallery of Christian Art, New York 1853, p. 11, nr. 147 [als portret van Willem III].
Bryan Companion Catalogue 1853, p. 88, nr. 147.
Documentatiemap Schilderijen: correspondentie over de aankoop.

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