Gerard ter Borch, also known as Gerard Terburg, was an influential and pioneering Dutch genre painter who lived in the Dutch Golden Age. He influenced fellow Dutch painters Gabriel Metsu, Gerrit Dou, Eglon van der Neer and Johannes Vermeer.
The Grinder's Family; court-yard with a knife-grinder sharpening a scythe on a large grinding-stone, lying on a cloth-covered plank at right, a man waiting patiently, a woman delousing the hair of a child in left foreground.
From:
Cabinet du Duc de Choiseul
Recueil d'estampes gravées d'après les tableaux du cabinet de Monseigneur le Duc de Choiseul
1771
Sheet 23.2 x 29.5 cm
Etching
Verso spotted.
