Dutch or Iranian? Technical study of a seventeenth-century painting on paper from Gesina Ter Bosch’s scrapbook

Abstract A scrapbook compiled between 1660 and 1687 by Gesina ter Borch (1631–1690), a female artist from the small town of Zwolle in the Netherlands, contains an intriguing painting on paper of a full-length portrait of a young Iranian. Although the figure wears the attributes in vogue at the Safav...

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Main Authors: Amélie Couvrat Desvergnes, Leila Sauvage, Jan de Hond, Paolo D’Imporzano, Matthias Alfeld
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: SpringerOpen 2021-09-01
Series:Heritage Science
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1186/s40494-021-00577-2