Live Auction 2862Old Masters and 19th Century Art
Attributed to Gerard ter Borch II (Zwolle 1617-1681 Deventer) and Studio
Lot 83

Attributed to Gerard ter Borch II (Zwolle 1617-1681 Deventer) and Studio

Heraclitus

Closed11 May 2011

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Attributed to Gerard ter Borch II (Zwolle 1617-1681 Deventer) and Studio
Heraclitus
signed with indistinct monogram (?) (lower centre)
oil on panel, unframed
25.8 x 22.5 cm.

Anonymous sale; Christie's, London, 1950, as 'G. Dou'.
with Koetser, London.
with P. de Boer, Amsterdam, by 1950, as 'Gerard Terborch'.
Private collection, The Netherlands.

Specialist note

S.J. Gudlaugsson (op.cit.), dates the present lot to circa 1670. He regards it as a studio version, with slight differences, probably partly autograph, after the painting by Ter Borch that was with Van Diemen in 1925 (op.cit., p. 88, no. 67, ill.).