id: 124092 accession number: 1944.93 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1944.93 updated: 2024-03-26 01:58:00.216000 Portrait of a Woman, c. 1665. Gerard ter Borch (Dutch, 1617–1681). Oil on canvas; framed: 87.5 x 77 x 7 cm (34 7/16 x 30 5/16 x 2 3/4 in.); unframed: 63.3 x 52.7 cm (24 15/16 x 20 3/4 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, The Elisabeth Severance Prentiss Collection 1944.93 title: Portrait of a Woman title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: c. 1665 creation date earliest: 1650 creation date latest: 1670 current location: 215 French, German, and Dutch creditline: The Elisabeth Severance Prentiss Collection copyright: --- culture: Netherlands technique: oil on canvas department: European Painting and Sculpture collection: P - Netherlandish-Dutch type: Painting find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS * Gerard ter Borch (Dutch, 1617–1681) - artist --- measurements: Framed: 87.5 x 77 x 7 cm (34 7/16 x 30 5/16 x 2 3/4 in.); Unframed: 63.3 x 52.7 cm (24 15/16 x 20 3/4 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: The Twentieth Anniversary Exhibition: The Official Art Exhibit of the Great Lakes Exposition opening date: 1936-06-26T04:00:00 The Twentieth Anniversary Exhibition: The Official Art Exhibit of the Great Lakes Exposition. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 26-October 4, 1936). title: 35th Anniversary Exhibition opening date: 1951-06-20T04:00:00 35th Anniversary Exhibition. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 20-September 30, 1951). title: Great Portraits by Famous Painters opening date: 1952-11-11T05:00:00 Great Portraits by Famous Painters. Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minneapolis, MN (organizer) (November 11-December 23, 1952). title: Seventeenth Century Dutch Paintings and Drawings opening date: 1956-10-10T04:00:00 Seventeenth Century Dutch Paintings and Drawings. Akron Art Museum (organizer) (October 10-November 11, 1956). title: Masters of Seven Centuries opening date: 1962-02-27T05:00:00 Masters of Seven Centuries. Wildenstein & Co., New York, NY (February 27-March 31, 1962). title: Juxtapositions opening date: 1965-09-11T04:00:00 Juxtapositions. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (September 11-October 10, 1965). title: Dutch Art and Life in the Seventeenth Century opening date: 1973-07-10T04:00:00 Dutch Art and Life in the Seventeenth Century. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (July 10-September 2, 1973). title: Dutch Seventeenth-Century Portraiture, the Golden Age opening date: 1980-12-04T05:00:00 Dutch Seventeenth-Century Portraiture, the Golden Age. John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art, Sarasota, FL (organizer) (December 4, 1980-February 8, 1981). title: Gerard ter Borch opening date: 2004-11-07T00:00:00 Gerard ter Borch. National Gallery of Art, Landover, MD (November 7, 2004-January 30, 2005); The Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, MI (February 28-May 22, 2005). title: Rembrandt exhibition - Reciprocal Loan opening date: 2011-10-30T00:00:00 Rembrandt exhibition - Reciprocal Loan. The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO (organizer) (October 30, 2011-September 16, 2012). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS * {'description': 'Exhibition of Works by the Old Masters and Deceased Masters of the British School. London: Royal Academy of Arts, 1877, cat. no. 277.', 'opening_date': None} * {'description': 'The Prentiss Bequest. Cleveland Museum of Art, 1944, cat. no. 15.', 'opening_date': '1944-01-01T00:00:00'} * {'description': 'Old Masters from Midwestern Museums. Grand Rapids (Michigan) Art Gallery, December 1, 1948-January 2, 1949.', 'opening_date': '1948-12-01T00:00:00'} * {'description': 'Dutch Painting: The Golden Age. Metropolitan Museum of Art (October 28-December 15, 1954); Toledo (Ohio) Museum of Art (January 2-February 12, 1955); Art Gallery of Toronto (Canada) (February 19-March 25, 1955), cat. no. 11.', 'opening_date': '1954-10-28T00:00:00'} * {'description': 'Masters of Seven Centuries. Wildenstein & Co, New York. (February 27-March 31, 1962), cat. no. 21.', 'opening_date': '1962-02-27T00:00:00'} --- PROVENANCE (presumably) Jan Jacob [Jean-Jacques de] Faesch [1755-1831], Amsterdam) date: footnotes: *
Previous provenance erroneously identified the seller with the renowned collector Cardinal Joseph Fesch (1763–1839). Jan Jacob Faesch was one of the richest Amsterdammers of his day. His wealth was derived principally from the sugar and coffee trade; he owned multiple estates in Surinam. He is included in a list compiled of the wealthiest Dutch citizens in c. 1812, with an income of 50,000 frcs. (see: Eduard de Biema, “Amsterdamsche Fortuinen onder het Fransche Keizerrijk,” De Navorscher 54 [1904], p. 318).  Faesch sold his business in 1827 and his country retreat, Westermeer, in 1828.  The 1833 auction sale catalogue refers to the seller as “Jean-Jacques de Jean-Jacques de Faesch”—probably an indication that the seller was a similarly-named son of Faesch, who had died two years earlier
citations: (de Vries … Roos, Amsterdam, sale Jean-Jacques de Jean-Jacques de Faesch, July 3, 1833, no. 56 [“Een prachtig gekleed Dame, staande bij een tafel en stoel, beide met rood bekleedsel”, canvas, 6p 3d x 5p 1d; fl. 90, to Chaplin or Chaplen or Chapplaen]) date: 1833 footnotes: * citations: F. Austen, London date: 1877 footnotes: *
Possibly [John] Francis Austen (1817–1893) of Capel Manor, Horsmonden, Kent. No painting of this description was included in the sale of the late J. F. Austen, London (Christie’s), March 18, 1921. 
citations: [M. Knoedler & Co., New York]; date: footnotes: citations: Elisabeth Severance Prentiss, Cleveland, 1923, by bequest to the Cleveland Museum of Art, 1944. date: by 1923 footnotes: *
The art dealer René Gimpel mentions seeing the painting on a visit to the Prentiss home on May 31, 1923; see: René Gimpel, Diary of an Art Dealer (New York: Farrar, Straus, Giroux, 1966), p. 227.
citations: --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS Graves, Algernon. Century of Loan Exhibitions 1813-1912. London: Graves, 1913. page number: Mentioned: vol. 3, p. 1301 url: Hofstede de Groot, C. P. A Catalogue Raisonné of the Works of the Most Eminent Dutch Painters of the Seventeenth Century. 8 vols London: Macmillan and Co, 1908-. page number: Mentioned: vol. 5, p. 78, no. 220; p. 128, no. 416f. url: Catalogue of the Twentieth Anniversary Exhibition of the Cleveland Museum of Art: The Official Art Exhibit of the Great Lakes Exposition : June Twenty-Sixth to October Fourth 1936. [Cleveland, Ohio]: [Cleveland Museum of Art], 1936. page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: p. 97, pl. LIII, cat. no. 245 url: Hannema, Frans. Gerard Terborch. Amsterdam: "De Gulden ster", 1943. page number: Mentioned: p. 101; Reproduced: p. 163 url: Catalogue of the Elisabeth Severance Prentiss Collection : Bequest of Elisabeth Severance Prentiss, 1944. [Cleveland]: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1944. page number: Reproduced: p. [19], Plate VII, cat. no. 15; Mentioned: p. 28, cat. no. 15 url: https://archive.org/details/Prentiss/page/n32 Francis, Henry A. "Paintings in the Prentiss Bequest," The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 31, no. 6 (June, 1944): 88-89. page number: Reproduced: p. 86 url: Paintings in the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1945. page number: Reproduced: p. 23 url: Great Portraits by Famous Painters. Exh. cat. Minneapolis, Minn.: Minneapolis Institute of Arts, 1952. page number: url: Coe, Nancy. The History of the Collecting of European Paintings and Drawings in the City of Cleveland. Thesis M.A. Oberlin College, 1955. page number: Mentioned: v. 2, p. 217, no. 22; Reproduced pl. XLIII url: The Cleveland Museum of Art Handbook. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1958. page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: cat. no. 441 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1958/page/n81 Gudlaugsson, S. J. Geraert ter Borch. 2 vols The Hague: M. Nijhoff, 1959-60. page number: Mentioned: vol. 1, p. 140, 337, vol. 2, p. 190; Reproduced: vol. 2 fig. 194 url: Masters of Seven Centuries: Paintings and Drawings from the 14th to 20th Century; Loan Exhibition for the Benefit of the Wellesley College Faculty Salary Advancement Fund, March 1 to 31, 1962. Exh. cat. New York: Wildenstein, 1962. page number: Mentioned: cat. no. 21 url: Gimpel, René. Journal d'un Collectionneur, Marchand de Tableaux. [Paris]: Calmann-Lévy, 1963. page number: Mentioned: p. 236 url: Payne, Blanche. History of Costume: From the Ancient Egyptians to the Twentieth Century. New York, NY: Harper & Row, 1965. page number: Reproduced: p. 398 url: Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1966. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1966. page number: Reproduced: p. 126 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1966/page/n150 Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1969. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1969. page number: Reproduced: p. 126 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1969/page/n150 Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978. page number: Reproduced: p. 162 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1978/page/n182 Wilson, William Harry. Dutch Seventeenth Century Portraiture, the Golden Age. Exh. cat. Sarasota, FL: The John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art, 1980. page number: Mentioned and Reproduced: p. 23, cat. no. 10 url: The Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art Catalogue of Paintings, Part 3: European Paintings of the 16th, 17th, and 18th Centuries. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1982. page number: Mentioned: p. 222; Reproduced: p. 223 url: Tortora, Phyllis G., and Keith Eubank. A Survey of Historic Costume. New York, NY: Fairchild Publications, 1989. page number: Reproduced: p. 157, fig. 10.10 url: MacLaren, Neil, and Christopher Brown. The Dutch School, 1600-1900. 2 vols. London: National Gallery Publications, 1991. page number: Mentioned: vol. 1, p. 39-40 url: Chong, Alan. European & American Painting in the Cleveland Museum of Art: A Summary Catalogue. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1993. page number: Reproduced: p. 18 url: Kettering, Alison McNeil. "Gerard Ter Borch's Portraits for the Deventer Elite." Simiolus: Netherlands Quarterly for the History of Art 27, no. 1/2 (1999): 46-69. page number: Mentioned: p. 51, no. 9 url: Wheelock, Arthur K.. Gerard Ter Borch. Washington, D.C.: National Gallery of Art, 2004. page number: Reproduced: p. 148 url: Exhibition of Works by the Old Masters and Deceased Masters of the British School. Exh. Cat. London: Royal Academy of Arts, in association with William Clowes and Sons, 1877.
 page number: Mentioned: p. 49, no. 277 url: https://www.royalacademy.org.uk/art-artists/exhibition-catalogue/1877-old-masters-and-deceased-masters-of-the-british-school --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1944.93/1944.93_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1944.93/1944.93_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1944.93/1944.93_full.tif