VP4025

Gerard Ter Borch
(Zwolle 1617 – 1681 Deventer)

The Pressing Invitation to Drink

On panel – 10 1/2 x 8 in, (26.5 x 20 cm)

Provenance:

• Dowdeswell & Dowdeswell, London
• R. Langton Douglas, London, by 1912
• P. Cassirer, Berlin, 1924
• Private Collection, Berlin
• Lucerne Fine Art Company, 1927
• Inherited by the Bett family
• Private Collection, England
• Thence by descent to the previous owner

Literature:

• C. Hofstede de Groot, Beschreibendes und Kritisches Verzeichnis der Werke der Hervorragensten Höllandischen Maler der XVII. Jahrhunderts, Paris 1912, no. 83 (repr. as A Catalogue Raisonné of the Most Eminent Dutch Painters of the Seventeenth Century, London 1913, vol. V, p.34, no.83) Bode (publishers), Rep für Kunstwissenschaft, 46, 1925, p.114 S. J. Gudlaugsson, Katalog der Gemälde Gerard Terborchs, The Hague, 1959-60, vol. I, p. 230, no. 68: vol.II, p.89, pl.68