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AT-00011660A Man Standing Seen from the Back
Inscriptions
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).
Data retrieved from the Cleveland Museum of Art on October 8, 2026. The museum may have updated its record since.
Quick Overview
- Artist
- Gerard ter Borch (Dutch, 1617–1681)
- Date
- c. 1630
- Medium
- black chalk heightened with traces of white chalk; framing lines in brown ink
- Dimensions
- Sheet: 28.9 x 15 cm (11 3/8 x 5 7/8 in.)
- Type
- Drawing
- Classification
- Drawing
- Department
- Drawings
- Credit line
- Gift of Robert Hays Gries
- Accession no.
- 1941.603
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