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A man bows to a woman as another man looks on from the shadowy background, while a woman sitting at a table plays a lute in this vertical painting. All the people have pale skin. The bowing man enters from an open door to our left. He faces our right in profile and has a bumped nose, a dark mustache, and his brown hair falls loosely over his shoulders. He wears a voluminous, black jacket that has a wide white collar and flat, plate-like, starched white cuffs. He bends forward with one foot stretched in front of him, as he gazes at the woman to our right. His hands are spread wide. His left…

The Suitor's Visit

Gerard ter Borch the Younger (Dutch, 1617 - 1681)

c. 1658 · oil on canvas

National Gallery of Art · Andrew W. Mellon Collection

Public domain (NGA Open Access, CC0)

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