LOT DETAILS

Materials:

oil on canvas

Measurements:

26.89 in. (68.30 cm.) (height) by 22.01 in. (55.90 cm.) (width)

Exhibited:

London, Royal Academy of Arts, Winter Exhibition, 5 January-13 March 1880, no. 77, as 'Gerard Terburg' (lent by Antony Gibbs). London, Corporation of London Art Gallery, Loan Collection of Pictures, 2 April- 30 June 1894, no. 56, as 'Gerard Terburg' (lent by Antony Gibbs). London, Royal Academy of Arts, The Robinson Collection, 2 July-14 September 1958, no. 2, as 'Gerard ter Borch'. Cape Town, National Gallery of South Africa, The Joseph Robinson Collection, Lent by the Princess Labia, 1959, no. 61, as 'Gerard ter Borch', 'its quality suggests an original' (catalogue by E.K. Waterhouse). Zurich, Kunsthaus, Sammlung Sir Joseph Robinson, 1840-1929, 17 August-16 September 1962, no. 41, as 'Gerard ter Borch'. Washington, National Gallery of Art; and Detroit, The Detroit Institute of Arts, Gerard ter Borch, 7 November 2004-22 May 2005, no. 40, as 'attributed to Gerard ter Borch', as a version of 'extremely high quality' (noted by A.K. Wheelock, Jr. in the catalogue).

Literature:

J. Smith, A Catalogue Raisonné of the Works of the most eminent Dutch, Flemish, and French Painters, London, 1833, IV, p. 120, under no. 8, as 'Gerard Terburg'. W. Roberts, Memorials of Christie's: A record of art sales from 1766 to 1896, London, 1897, I, p. 294, as 'G. Terburg, The Glass of Lemonade, two ladies and a gentleman in a handsome apartment'. C. Hofstede de Groot, Beschreibendes und kritisches Verzeichnis der Werke der hervorragendsten holländischen Maler des XVII. Jahrhunderts, nach dem Muster von John Smith's Catalogue Raisonné, Esslingen, 1912, V, p. 37, no. 37.2, as a treatment of the same subject as the picture in the Hermitage, St. Petersburg. C. Hofstede de Groot, A catalogue raisonné of the works of the most eminent Dutch painters of the seventeenth century based on the work of John Smith, London, 1913, V, p. 36, no. 87.3, as a treatment of the same subject. A. Graves, A Century of Loan Exhibitions, 1813-1913, London, 1914, III, p. 1302 (two entries), as 'Terborch, Gerard'; and 1915, V, p. 2501. S.J. Gudlaugsson, Gerard Ter Borch, 1617-1681, The Hague, 1960, II, p. 189, no. 192b, as 'Kopie, nach dem ursprünglich Zustand'. W.A. Liedtke, 'Dutch and Flemish Paintings from the Hermitage: Some notes to an exhibition catalogue with special attention to Rembrandt, Van Dyck and Jordaens', Oud Holland, CIII, 1989, p. 155, no. 4, as 'possibly by Eglon van der Neer'. M. Stevenson, Art & Aspirations. The Randlords of South Africa and their collections, Vlaeberg, 2002, p. 52, fig. 16, as 'Attributed to Gerard Ter Borch'. A. Wallert and G. Tauber, 'Over herhalingen in de schilderkunst: het probleem van reproductie', Bulletin van het Rijksmuseum, LII, 2004, pp. 316-7 and 319-20, fig. 1, as 'een eigenhandige repliek' by Ter Borch. A. Wallert, 'Ter Borch's Materials and Methods of Painting: The Glass of Lemonade', Zeitschrift für Kunsttechnologie und Konservierung, 2004, pp. 379-90, figs. 1 and 3-6, as a 'beautiful work' by Ter Borch. B. Cornelis, 'Gerard ter Borch', The Burlington Magazine, CXLVII, 2005, p. 357, fig. 70, illustrated, as 'attributed to Gerard ter Borch, a very good, exact replica', 'too good to be..a replica [by van der Neer or Musscher]' but bearing 'all the hallmarks of Ter Borch himself'. E. Schavemaker, One Hundred Master Paintings, Zwolle, 2005, pp. 42-7, no. 10, as 'Ter Borch'. G. Korevvaar & G. Tauber, 'Gerard ter Borch repeats: on autograph portrait copies in the work of Ter Borch (1617-1681)', The Rijksmuseum Bulletin, 2014, p. 377 (as an example of 'multiple versions of composition by Ter Borch').

Provenance:

(Possibly) John Maitland (?1754-1831), M.P., Woodford Hall, Essex; his sale (†), Christie's, London, 30 July 1831, lot 99, as 'Terburg', 'an exquisite specimen' (100 gns. to Woodburn). (Possibly) John Rogers; his sale (†), Christie's, London, 1 May 1847 [=2nd day], lot 182, as 'Terburg' (138 gns. to Smith). (Possibly) with Samuel Woodburn (1786-1853), London; his sale (†), Christie's, London, 24 June 1853, lot 51, as 'G. Terburg' (93 gns. to Pearce). Hugh A.J. Munro of Novar (1797-1864), Novar House, Ross-shire; his sale (†), Christie's, London, 1 June 1878, lot 114, as 'G. Terburg' (1,850 gns. to Goupil). Antony Gibbs (1841-1907), Tyntesfield, near Bristol, by 1880 (according to an old label on the reverse). Sir Joseph Robinson, 1st Bt. (1840-1929), South African mining magnate and 'Randlord'; his sale, Christie's, London, 6 July 1923, lot 94, as 'G. Terburg' (withdrawn from sale), and by descent to, Ida Louise Robinson, Princess Labia, Cape Town; Property from the collection of Sir Joseph Robinson Bt. (1840-1929); Sotheby's, London, 7 December 1988, lot 100, as 'Attributed to Gerard ter Borch'. with Thomas Agnew & Sons, London, as 'Ter Borch'. with Noortman, Maastricht, as 'Ter Borch', from whom acquired in 2004 by the following, Pieter and Olga Dreesman; Christie's, London, 3 July 2012, lot 26, as ‘Attributed to Gerard ter Borch’ (£1,273,250), when acquired.