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Woman with Two Baskets of Fruit and a Cherry Branch
Also titled Vrouw met twee manden fruit en een kersentak
Gesina ter Borch (Zwolle, ca. –1690)
c. 1652
- Medium
- paper, pen (veer), ink, watercolor (paint)
- Classification
- drawing
- Dimensions
- height 301 mm x width 195 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
The motto at the bottom of the sheet explains the connection between the drawing of a woman carrying fruit and Jacob Cats’ poem about chastity. After all, it is better to pick fruit yourself than to accept ‘pearsthat have already been plucked,’ alluding to promiscuity. In this early drawing, Gesina ter Borch opted for a simple illustration to accompany the text. Years later, in her Poëzie-album (Poetry Album), she would provide the same poem with a more complex composition.
