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Memorial Portrait of Moses ter Borch
Also titled Memorieportret van Moses ter Borch
Gesina ter Borch (Zwolle, ca. –1690)
Gerard ter Borch (II) (Zwolle, 1617–1681)
1667 - 1669
- Medium
- canvas, oil paint (paint)
- Classification
- painting
- Dimensions
- height 77.5 cm x width 58.3 cm
- Museum
- Rijksmuseum
- Credit line
- Purchased with the support of the Rijksmuseum-Stichting
- Rights
- Public Domain Mark, as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Teens profiles and older: its subject is for older viewers (war, death, the Passion, drink or the like). How works are placed
About this work
Moses died in 1667 during the storming of Fort Languard near Felixstowe in England. Not long thereafter Gerard and Gesina painted this picture in memory of their youngest brother. Gerard painted Moses’ portrait, Gesina the background and the objects. These allude to Moses’ heroic death and the transience of life, such as time (the pocket watch), death (the skull), eternity (ivy on the rocks) and loyalty (the dogs).
