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32 - Gerard ter Borch the Younger
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Gerard ter Borch the Younger (Dutch, 1617-1681) The Philosopher Heraclitus oil on panel purportedly monogrammed 10 1/8 x 8 7/8 in. (25.7 x 22.5 cm) Property from the Estate of Ambassador J. William Middendorf II, Rhode Island This lot is located in Philadelphia. Framed: 15 1/2 x 14 x 1 1/2 in. Please contact Fineart@freemansauction.com for a detailed condition report. Provenance: Christie’s, London, sale, 1950 (as Gerard Dou). Gallery Koetser, London. Pieter de Boer, Amsterdam, after 1950 (as Gerard Terborch). Private Collection, The Netherlands. Christie’s, Amsterdam, sale of May 11, 2011, Lot 83. Art Market, London. Dorotheum, Vienna, sale of April 17, 2013, Lot 658. Private Collection. Dorotheum, Vienna, sale of October 22, 2019, Lot 78. Literature: S. J. Gudlaugsson, Gerard Terborch, The Hague 1960, II, p. 88, no. 67A. Lot Note: A paper label on the reverse records that Cornelis Hofstede de Groot and Eduard Plietzsch published a second version of the composition. Arthur Wheelock, having examined a photograph of the present painting, endorsed its attribution to Terborch as an autograph work. The attribution has since been independently confirmed by Fred Meijer and Peter van den Brink.
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Old Master and 19th Century European Art, Including Works from the Collection of Ambassador J. William Middendorf IIAuction house
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