France, Dutch painting, Ter Borch, Zwolle, gold plated

France, Dutch painting, Ter Borch, Zwolle, gold plated (image 3/[null, null, null, null])

France, Dutch painting, Ter Borch, Zwolle, gold plated (image 4/[null, null, null, null])

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This medal is a part of my medals collection Visit my page with the offers, please. You will find many interesting items related to this subject. If you are interested in other medals, related to this subject, France, related to Art Literature This medal has been minted in France in 1983 to commemorate the Dutch painter, Gerard ter Borch, 1617 - 1681. This medal has been designed by the outstanding French medalist, Gerard LANVIN. Gerard ter Borch (or Terburg ) (December 1617 – 8 December 1681) was a Dutch genre painter , who lived in the Dutch Golden Age . av. The self portrait of Gerard ter Borch; the signature of the medalist rv. The different motives from his works diameter – 68 mm (ca 2⅜”) weight – 290.60 gr, (10.25 oz) metal – bronze, GILDED Gerard ter Borch was born in December 1617 in Zwolle in the province of Overijssel in the Dutch Republic . He received an excellent education from his father, also an artist, and developed his talent very early. The inscription on a study of a head proves that Ter Borch was at Amsterdam in 1632, where he studied possibly under Willem Cornelisz Duyster or Pieter Codde . Duyster's influence can be traced in a picture bearing the date 1638, in the lonides Bequest (Victoria and Albert Museum). In 1634 he studied under Pieter de Molijn in Haarlem . A record of this Haarlem period is the Consultation (1635) at the Berlin Gallery. In 1635 he was in London , and subsequently he travelled in Germany , France , Spain and Italy . It is certain that he was in Rome in 1641, when he painted the small portraits on copper of Jan Six and A Young Lady (Six Collection, Amsterdam). In 1648 he was at Münster during the meeting of the congress which ratified the treaty of peace between the Spaniards and the Dutch, and executed his celebrated little picture, painted upon copper, of the assembled plenipotentiaries --a work which, along with the a portrait of a Man Standing , now represents the master in the national collection in London. The picture was bought by the marquess of Hertford at the Demidoff sale for 1280, and presented to the National Gallery by Sir Richard Wallace , at the suggestion of his secretary, Sir John Murray Scott. At this time Ter Borch was invited to visit Madrid , where he received employment and the honour of knighthood from Philip IV , but, in consequence of an intrigue, it is said, he was obliged to return to the Netherlands. He seems to have resided for a time in Haarlem; but he finally settled in Deventer , where he became a member of the town council, as which he appears in the portrait now in the gallery of the Hague. He died at Deventer in 1681. Works Ter Borch is excellent as a portrait painter, but still greater as a painter of genre subjects. He depicts with admirable truth the life of the wealthy and cultured classes of his time, and his work is free from any touch of the grossness which finds so large a place in Dutch art. [not specific enough to verify ] His figures are well drawn and expressive in attitude; his colouring is clear and rich, but his best skill lies in his unequalled rendering of texture in draperies, which is seen to advantage in such pictures as The Letter and in The Gallant Conversation engraved by Wille – which exists in various repetitions at Berlin and Amsterdam, and in the Bridgewater Gallery. Ter Borch's works are comparatively rare; only about eighty have been catalogued. Six of these are at the Hermitage, six at the Berlin Museum, five at the Louvre ; four at the Dresden Museum, and two at the Wallace Collection . The artist's painting The Suitor's Visit , c. 1658, oil on canvas, 80 x 75 cm (31½ × 29 9/16 in.) in the Andrew W. Mellon Collection, was used on the cover of Marilyn Stokstad 's second edition of Art History . read more

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