The Concert: Singer and Theorbo Player

Gerard ter Borch completed this intimate musical scene showing a singer accompanied by a theorbo player. The figures are dressed in elegant satin garments that shimmer with ter Borch's characteristic mastery of fabric textures. The refined interior suggests a prosperous Dutch household engaged in cultivated entertainment.

Ter Borch specialized in small-scale genre scenes of the Dutch upper classes, capturing moments of quiet domestic refinement. His ability to render silk and satin was unmatched among Dutch painters. Now at the Louvre in Paris.