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Gesina ter Borch, dessiner faute de peindre

2020, Foi&Vie

Abstract

She's a frequent character on her brother Gerard's paintings and her three albums of drawings in the Rijksmuseum are a unique testimony of how a woman of that time could be active in art and see the world around. A world where Petrarquism and Calvinism mixed together, as in Gerard's sceneries, into a "complex and contradictory" interaction between men and women.