Gallant Conversation, Known as ‘The Paternal Admonition’

Gerard ter Borch’s Gallant Conversation, long known as The Paternal Admonition, is among the most celebrated interior scenes of the Dutch Golden Age. Painted in the mid-1650s, it established the type of elegant, psychologically restrained domestic conversation that made ter Borch’s reputation and influenced generations of genre painters, including Vermeer and Metsu.