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Self-Portrait in a Cartouche with the Ter Borch Family Coat of Arms
Also titled Zelfportret in cartouche met het wapen van de familie Ter Borch
Gesina ter Borch (Zwolle, ca. –1690)
1652-11-18 - c. 1680
- Medium
- paper, gold leaf, calf (leather)
- Classification
- album
- Dimensions
- height 320 mm x width 210 mm x thickness 30 mm
- Museum
- Rijksmuseum
- Credit line
- Purchased with the support of the Vereniging Rembrandt
- Rights
- Public Domain Mark, 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
About this work
Gesina ter Borch placed this self-portrait at the beginning of her Poëzie-album (Poetry Album), consisting of over 90 poems to be sung accompanied by delicate watercolour drawings. Such handwritten, illustrated songbooks are very rare. This album testifies to Ter Borch’s boundless inventiveness and ambition. Beneath the self-portrait, a schoolmaster not surprisingly sang the praises of both her ‘konstrijcke hant’ (artistic hand) and her ‘geestrijck verstant’ (brilliant mind).
