File:Borch Officer 01.jpg

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Summary

Gerard ter Borch: An officer dictating a letter  wikidata:Q22713642 reasonator:Q22713642
Artist
Gerard ter Borch  (1617–1681)  wikidata:Q346808
 
Gerard ter Borch
Alternative names
Gerard Terborch
Description Dutch painter, drawer and miniaturist
Date of birth/death 1617 / December 1617 Edit this at Wikidata 8 December 1681 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death Zwolle Edit this at Wikidata Deventer Edit this at Wikidata
Work period from 1625 until 1681
date QS:P,+1650-00-00T00:00:00Z/7,P580,+1625-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P582,+1681-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
Work location
Amsterdam (1632–1633), Zwolle (1633–1634), Haarlem (1634–1635), London (1635–1636), Zwolle (1636), Italy (1637–1648), France (1637–1648), Münster (1648), Deventer (1654–1681), Amsterdam (1674), The Hague (1675), Haarlem (1675)
Authority file
artist QS:P170,Q346808
image of artwork listed in title parameter on this page
Title
Officer writing a letter, with a messenger Edit this at Wikidata
label QS:Lfr,"Un Officier dictant une lettre."
label QS:Lpl,"Oficer dyktujący list."
label QS:Len,"An officer dictating a letter."
Object type painting Edit this at Wikidata
Genre genre art Edit this at Wikidata
Date circa 1657-1658
Medium oil on panel
medium QS:P186,Q296955;P186,Q106857709,P518,Q861259
Dimensions height: 41 cm (16.1 in); width: 28 cm (11 in)
dimensions QS:P2048,41U174728
dimensions QS:P2049,28U174728
institution QS:P195,Q153306
Current location
ground floor
Accession number
M.Ob.493 (158664)
Object history before 1783
date QS:P,+1783-00-00T00:00:00Z/7,P1326,+1783-00-00T00:00:00Z/9
: purchased by Stanisław Augustus Poniatowski, Warsaw

1795: transferred to Gallery of the Palace on the Water, Warsaw
1798: inherited by Józef Poniatowski, Warsaw
1813: inherited by Maria Teresa Tyszkiewiczowa, Warsaw
1817: purchased by Alexander I of Russia, Warsaw

circa 1914
date QS:P,+1914-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902
: transferred to Russia

1922: restituted to Palace on the Water, Warsaw
1939: stolen by Nazi Germany

1947: restituted to National Museum in Warsaw (MNW)
Notes Augustus Poniatowski's collection inventory number: 42.
References

Jan Białostocki, Michał Walicki (1955). Malarstwo europejskie w zbiorach polskich, 1300-1800. PIW, p. 529

RKDimages, Art-work number 59614
Source/Photographer culture.pl

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painting of a man wearing a red hat and blue vest looking down at a person with long hair writing something with a quill pen on a desk with a dog sleeping below it

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