Horse Stable

A dappled gray horse feeds at a manger while a man brushes his coat. A horse blanket and bridle hang from a pole in the foreground and other barnyard utensils--a pitchfork, broom, and pail--fill the stable. To the right, a fashionably dressed woman appears at a doorway that connects to the main farmhouse. Light from the open doorway illuminates the animal, the painting's center of attention. Domestic animals like this carefully groomed horse would have been valued possessions of their prosperous owners during the 1600s in Holland. Clues such as the orderly and well-built stable and the woman's handsome dress and jewelry indicate that this was a well-to-do middle-class household. Gerard ter Borch's paintings are noted for their subtlety of composition, close attention to detail, and delicate color. In *Horse Stable* he used a palette of warm browns and grays, brightened by the red accents of the man's hat, the woman's skirt, and the bricks on the left-hand wall.

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Gegevens

Intussen, in het leven van Gerard ter Borch

In dezelfde zaal · Museum East Pavilion, Gallery E204, J. Paul Getty Museum

Bronnen

Ja, het ontvangt bezoek

Vrouw in boerenkostuum

Helena van der Schalcke

Galante conversatie, bekend als ‘De vaderlijke vermaning’

Burgomaster Jan van Duren (1613–1687)

Margaretha van Haexbergen (1614–1676)

Het sluiten van de Vrede van Munster

A Young Woman at Her Toilet with a Maid

La Leçon de lecture

Bathsheba After the Bath, about 1670–1675

The Drawing Lesson, about 1665

The Satyr and the Peasant Family, about 1660–1662

Two Watermills and an Open Sluice, 1653

Bridge with a Sluice, about 1648–1649

A Woman Preparing Bread and Butter for a Boy, about 1660–1663

The Music Lesson, about 1668

A Maid Milking a Cow in a Barn, about 1652–1654

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