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1993, Painting TERBORCH - WOMAN WRITING A LETTER 10-chetrum Bhutan MNH
Text: TERBORCH WOMAN WRITING A LETTER 10-chetrum
Condition: MNH
Title: Painting
TERBORCH - WOMAN WRITING A LETTER
Face value: 10 Ch
Country/area: Bhutan
Stamp Currency: Ch
Country/area: Bhutan
Year: 1993
Set: 1993
Painting
Stamp number in set: 1
Basic colour: Multi-coloured
Exact colour:
Usage:
Franking
Type: Stamp
Theme: Painting TERBORCH - WOMAN WRITING
A LETTER
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Printing: Offset
Printing office: Bhutan Post
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Painting TERBORCH WOMAN WRITING A LETTER
Terborch (also spelled Ter Borch, or
Terburg.(listen to the Dutch pronunciation to the left) developed his own
distinctive type of interior genre in which he depicted with grace and fidelity
the atmosphere of well-to-do, middle-class life in 17th-century Holland.
Ter Borch was one of the most
accomplished painters of seventeenth-century Holland, enjoying a considerable
reputation in his own day. In the 1640s he adopted a new pictorial type, the
full-length portrait, and he contributed to the development of a new genre
type, showing simplified interiors with a few figures in an upright format.
This composition became an important format for the second half of the 1600s.
These compositions are characterized by great refinement in the handling of
color, light, and texture and also by a subtle psychological interplay.
Terborch's father had been an artist and
had visited Rome but from 1621 was employed as a tax collector. Surviving
drawings made by the young Terborch in 1625 and 1626 are proudly inscribed and
dated by his father. In 1632 Gerard was in Amsterdam, and in 1634 he was a
pupil of Pieter de Molyn in Haarlem. He visited England in 1635, Rome in 1640,
and from 1646 spent two or three years in Münster, Westphalia, where the peace
congress was in session. The masterpiece of this period, The Swearing of the
Oath of Ratification of the Treaty of Münster (1648), portrays the delegates of
Holland and of Spain assembled to sign the peace treaty. After a stay in Madrid
he finally returned to his own country at the end of 1650, and in 1655 he
settled in Deventer.
Terborch's works consist almost equally
of portraits and genre pieces. His characteristically delicate technique can be
appreciated in the portraits, which are painted on a small, almost miniature
scale, though many of them are full-length. In color they tend to be subdued,
due largely to the sober costume of the times, but by subtlety of tonal
gradations and mastery in rendering diverse surface textures he was able to
achieve an extraordinary richness of effect. Particularly characteristic is his
manner of rendering satin. His superb color sense appears to greater advantage
in genre subjects, though it is always employed with masterly restraint. In his
earlier years he painted many guardroom subjects in the manner of Pieter Codde
and Willem Duyster, but later, from about the time when he finally settled in
Holland, he painted calm, exquisitely drawn groups, posed easily and naturally
against shadowy backgrounds and imbued with an almost aristocratic elegance
that is unique among Dutch painters of his time.
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