Page:Hofstede de Groot catalogue raisonné, Volume 5, 1913.djvu/77

 xvn GERARD TER BORCH 61 Panel, 12 inches by 9^ inches. Sale. Ruelens, Brussels, April 17, 1883, No. 269 (320 francs). 167. THE LETTER. Sm. 14. A fair-haired lady, in a black dress with a red jacket and a bluish-grey bodice adorned with pearls and gold, sits at a table writing a letter. Beside her is an inkpot. A Turkey carpet covers part of the table. At the back is a bed. Half-length. Panel, 15 inches by 12 inches. Engraved by Pruneau in the Choiseul Gallery. There are copies 1. Panel, *] inches by 13^ inches. In the Imperial Gallery, Vienna, 1907 catalogue, No. 1365 ; according to Engerth, it was sent from Brussels to Vienna in 1651, and it has certainly been there since 1783. [Cf. 180.] 2. Panel, 17 inches by 14 inches ; mentioned by Waagen, ii. 183 (1854). Exhibited at the Grafton Galleries, London, 1911, No. 78. In the collection of the Baron Verstolk van Soelen, The Hague, 1833 (Sm.) ; sold in 1846 to Baring. In the collection of the Earl of Northbrook, London, 1889 cata- logue, No. 114. 3. Canvas. In the Schloss Altstadt, Kassel, No. 190, in 1783. Other versions, which may or may not have been identical with the original, with one of the copies noted, or with one another, occurred 1. Sale. Amsterdam, April 9, 1783, No. 60 canvas, 14 inches by 13 inches. 2. Sale. Amsterdam, June 10, 1789, No. 20 (90 florins, with "A Woman drinking," Coders) : the pendant (see 96) was on canvas, 14 inches by 1 1 inches. 3. Sales. B. de Bosch, Amsterdam, March 10, 1817, No. 3 (192 florins) panel, 15 inches by 13 inches. Walsh Porter, London, 1810 (93 : 93.). Sale. Due de Choiseul, Paris, April 6, 1772, No. 29 (500 francs). In the collection of Six van Hillegom, Amsterdam, No. 142 ; it was there in 1833 (Sm.). 1 68. A YOUNG LADY READING. Sm. 47. Three-quarter length. A fair-haired young lady in black silk, with a hood of the same material, sits in profile to the left at a table, reading a letter which she holds in both hands. On the table, which has a red cover, are a gold salver and ewer and a silver candlestick. On the back wall hangs a map inscribed (in capitals) " Nova et acurata totius Evropre tab." To the right is the chimney-piece. In an "exquisite style of painting " (Sm.). Canvas, 17 J inches by 15^ inches. Exhibited at Berlin, 1906, No. 139. Sales. P. van der Santheuvel, Dordrecht, July 23, 1810, No. 56. P. van der Santheuvel and J. van Strij, Dordrecht, April 24, 1816, No. 115. Imported into England by the London dealer Woodin, 1816. Sale. Robert Hamilton, London, 1832 (49 : 73.). In the collection of Richard Winstanley, 1833 (Sm.).