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Portrait of a Girl Reading a Book
Also titled Portret van een lezend meisje
Gerard ter Borch (I) (Zwolle, 1584–1662)
c. 1630 - 1635
- Medium
- paper, pen (veer), ink, chalk
- Classification
- drawing
- Dimensions
- height 97 mm x width 88 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 sitter in this drawing by Gerard ter Borch is probably his eldest daughter, Anna. He affectionately drew her concentrated face, her long eyelashes and the wisps of hair escaping from her otherwise tidily combed back hair. Like her younger sister Gesina, Anna practised calligraphy. This form of penmanship was popular primarily among girls in the 17th century
