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A Domestic Quarrel
Also titled Echtpaar dat elkaar te lijf gaat
Gesina ter Borch (Zwolle, ca. –1690)
c. 1652
- Medium
- paper, pen (veer), ink, chalk
- Classification
- drawing
- Dimensions
- height 100 mm x width 155 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
This marital squabble has got quite out of hand. The man brandishes a fire iron above his head, while the woman swings her shoe and grabs his hair. No wonder his hat has fallen to the ground. This highly original and witty composition is a preliminary study for an illustration in the Poëzie-album (Poetry Album) accompanying a poem about good and bad marriages.
