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A Man Standing Seen from the Back

c. 1630

Gerard ter Borch

(Dutch, 1617–1681)

Netherlands

Black chalk heightened with traces of white chalk; framing lines in brown ink

Support: Brown laid paper

Sheet: 28.9 x 15 cm (11 3/8 x 5 7/8 in.)

Gift of Robert Hays Gries 1941.603

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not on view

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Inscription

VERSO, lower center, in graphite: Gérard Terburg ; ON SEPERATELY ATTACHED PIECE OF PAPER, center, printed in black ink: TERBURG (G.) / 83 --- Gentilhomme en pied, vu de dos. / Beau dessin à la pierre noire sur papier teinté. / Collection Desperet.

Provenance

1865

E. Desperet, Paris

1922

Michel Amédée Besnus

Dr. Daniel A. Huebsch, Cleveland

Robert Hays Gries, Cleveland

E. Desperet, Paris (Lugt 721, lower left, in black ink); his sale Paris, 7-13 June 1865, lot 308 (photocopy of catalog in department file). Michel Amédée Besnus (Lugt 78a, not stamped); his sale Paris, 8 March 1922, lot 140 (transcript of catalog entry in department file); Dr. Daniel A. Huebsch, Cleveland (according to transcript of 1922 sale, purchased at a later sale of Besnus collection for 950 francs). Robert Hays Gries, Cleveland

Exhibition history

Drawings from the Museum Collection. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 17-August 24, 1942).

Dutch Painting, The Golden Age. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (January 5-February 27, 1955).

Department of Prints and Drawings Opening Exhibition. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer) (March 3, 1958-October 11, 1959).

Drawings. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (January 11-September 10, 1963).

Drawings: France, Italy, Netherlands. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (January 1-March 24, 1965).

Old Master Prints and Drawings. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (July 29, 1966-February 28, 1967).

Seventeenth Century Netherlandish Graphics. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (April 27-August 1, 1982).

Drawings: Discoveries in the Collection. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (August 7-October 28, 1990).

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