Mother Combing Her Child's Hair, known as 'Hunting for Lice' …
This painting, with its subtle effects of light, refined gradations of colour, and incomparable rendering of materials, is one of the highlights of Ter Borch’s rich oeuvre. The figures are painted in a restrained palette, which merges harmoniously with the grey-green colour of the background.
Hunting for Lice: the most famous work of Gerard ter Borch
It may seem like a careless family snapshot, but in the seventeenth century lice hunting also symbolized a good mother who takes good care of her children. With the lice comb she not only pays attention to a clean appearance of the child, but also to a pure mind and interior.
Mother Combing Her Child's Hair, known as 'Hunting for Lice'
A mother is carefully combing her child’s hair in search of lice. The boy is undergoing the inspection stoically. Ter Borch painted many of these genre scenes, in which the main characters are...
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This painting is also known as Hunting for Lice. The models for the painting are probably the stepmother and one of the half-brothers of the artist. The painting probably contains a moral, as maternal care, orderliness and cleanliness were the ideal qualities of a good housewife.
Hunting for Lice by Gerard ter Borch - Artvee
His sister Gesina also became a painter. It is certain that he was in Rome in 1641, when he painted the small portraits on copper of Jan Six ,A Young Lady (Six Collection, Amsterdam) and the portrait of a Gentlemen (DMK Collection Nuermberg).
Hunting for Lice (A Mother Combing the Hair of her Child)
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Hunting for lice, Keshar Man — Leo Art Gallery
Three girls are busy looking for lice. Nepalese artist Keshar Man completed this painting in 2015 in the city of Bhatkapur, at a gallery not far from Durbar Square, where I was able to get my hands on his work after the massive earthquake.
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2022年5月2日 · The hunt for lice. Sounds appealing to anyone? Maybe you’re experiencing flashbacks from your youth. There is more to this scene than just an itchy...
A Mother Combing the Hair of her Daughter(also known as Hunting for Lice)
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