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Saint Cecilia with Two Angels Gesina ter Borch (1631-1690)
Also titled De heilige Cecilia met twee engelen
Gesina ter Borch (Zwolle, ca. –1690)
in or after c. 1660 - in or before c. 1661
- Medium
- paper, chalk
- Classification
- drawing
- Dimensions
- height 368 mm x width 242 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
Ter Borch depicted a majestic Cecilia, the patron saint of music, playing the organ. She must have known a similar composition from a print after a painting by Peter Paul Rubens. Unlike Rubens, Ter Borch endowed her own angels with an active music-making role. Thus, the angel on the left sings along attentively and the winged boy on the right operates the bellows.
