About the Artwork
Head of a Boy in Profile
ca. 1634
Gerard ter Borch
1617-1681
Dutch
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Pen and brown ink and gray wash on buff laid paper
Sheet: 25 1/4 × 22 7/8 inches (64.1 × 58.1 cm)
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Prints, Drawings & Photographs
Founders Society Purchase, William H. Murphy Fund
34.160
Public Domain
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Signed, in brush and grey ink, upper right: TBurg [in monogram]
Provenance
J. Q. van Regteren Altena (Amsterdam, Netherlands);E. Speelman (London, England);
1934-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
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Logan, A.M. Dutch and Flemish Drawings and Watercolors. New York, 1988, p. 46, no. 21 (ill.).
From Bruegel to Rembrandt: Dutch and Flemish Prints and Drawings from 1550 to 1700. Exh. cat., DIA. Detroit, 2020, p. 9.
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Gerard ter Borch, Head of a Boy in Profile, ca. 1634, pen and brown ink and gray wash on buff laid paper. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, William H. Murphy Fund, 34.160.
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