De heilige Cecilia met twee engelen
Ter Borch depicted a majestic Cecilia, the patron saint of music, playing the organ. She must have known a similar composition from a print after a painting by Peter Paul Rubens. Unlike Rubens, Ter Borch endowed her own angels with an active music-making role. Thus, the angel on the left sings along attentively and the winged boy on the right operates the bellows.
Gesina ter Borch