Woman in Peasant Costume
Also titled Vrouw in boerenkostuum
Gerard ter Borch (II) (Zwolle, 1617–1681)
c. 1648 - c. 1650
- Medium
- panel, paper, oil paint (paint)
- Classification
- painting
- Dimensions
- height 29.5 cm x width 24.5 cm
- Museum
- Rijksmuseum
- Credit line
- De Bruijn-van der Leeuw Bequest, Muri, Switzerland
- 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
Ter Borch probably depicted his half-sister Gesina ter Borch here. She, too, was an artist, and frequently modelled for him. In the 17th century, her appearance, with her gathered plaits and a red hairband, would immediately identify her as an unmarried country girl. She is holding a printed sheet of paper, from which she briefly glances up.
