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Portrait of Moses ter Borch as a Two-Year-Old
Also titled Portret van Moses ter Borch als tweejarig kind
Gesina ter Borch (Zwolle, ca. –1690)
in or after 1667
- Medium
- canvas, oil paint (paint)
- Classification
- painting
- Dimensions
- support: height 56.2 cm x width 45 cm x height 55 cm x width 43.8 cm x depth 1.5 cm
- Museum
- Rijksmuseum
- Credit line
- Purchased with the support of the Women of the Rijksmuseum Fund
- 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
Moses ter Borch died in the Second Anglo-Dutch War at the age of 22. Shortly thereafter, his older sister Gesina painted a portrait of him as a two-year-old as a memento and tribute. We see him beating a drum, surrounded by toy weapons that allude to the virtues of courage and patriotism. The message seems to be that he was fearless, even as a toddler.
