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…
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The Suitor's Visit

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

c. 1658

Medium
oil on canvas
Classification
Painting
Dimensions
overall: 80 x 75 cm (31 1/2 x 29 1/2 in.) ; framed: 110.8 x 106 x 12.7 cm (43 5/8 x 41 3/4 x 5 in.)
Culture
Dutch
Museum
National Gallery of Art, CNE-B
Credit line
Andrew W. Mellon Collection
Rights
Public domain (NGA Open Access, CC0), as the museum states it.
Who can see it
Tweens profiles and older: its subjects are known and suit older children. How works are placed

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