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Seated Couple with a Child
Also titled Echtpaar met kindje, zittend
Gesina ter Borch (Zwolle, ca. –1690)
c. 1652
- Medium
- paper, chalk
- Classification
- drawing
- Dimensions
- height 67 mm x width 93 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
A woman exchanges tender glances with her husband while nursing their baby. This is a study for a watercolour drawing in the Poëzie-album (Poetry Album) made by Gesina ter Borch to illustrate a poem about harmonious marriages. As a counterpoint, the text was to be sung to the same melody as the poem accompanying Ter Borch’s drawing of a couple quarrelling.
