# Saint Cecilia with Two Angels Gesina ter Borch (1631-1690)

- By: Gesina ter Borch (Zwolle, ca. –1690)
- Date: in or after c. 1660 - in or before c. 1661
- Medium: paper, chalk
- Classification: drawing
- Dimensions: height 368 mm x width 242 mm
- Credit line: Purchased with the support of the Vereniging Rembrandt
- Museum: [Rijksmuseum](https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/collection/object/RP-T-1887-A-1053--57f793fe1eff7377aa0d2b605ba64539)
- Rights: [Public Domain Mark](http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/)
- Picture: https://iiif.micr.io/bnPxq/full/!1920,1080/0/default.jpg
- Who can see it: Tweens profiles and older (museums give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the museum's own words)

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.