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GERARD TERBORCH (1617-1681) PORTRAIT OF A LADY Canvas, 16 5/8 inches by 21 1/2 inches ALMOST full length. Facing the spectator. The right hand is held across her person, the left hangs at her side. She wears a black silk dress, opening in front over a white satin skirt trimmed with gold lace. Pearls in her ears. Her hair is drawn tightly back and arranged in ringlets. At the left is a table with a blue cover. In the right background is a door. Painted about 1660-65. Mentioned in Dr. C. Hofstedes de Groot's "A Catalogue raisonne of the works of the most eminent Dutch painters of the Seventeenth Century," London, 1913, Vol V., p. 122, No. 399. Exhibited at the Hudson-Fulton Celebration, Metropolitan Museum, New York, 1909, No. 131. Formerly in the collection of A. Thiem, San Remo. Terborch more than once painted this model, usually with white satin in her costume, as in the present example. Three is a profile portrait if her in the Dresden Gallery, called "A Lady Washing Her Hands." It is possible that the model was his wife, as it is recorded that her jealousy debarred him from using any other female model. 9 GS