''Man on Horseback'' is a 1634 oil painting on panel by the Dutch painter

Gerard ter Borch Gerard ter Borch (; December 1617 – 8 December 1681), also known as Gerard Terburg (), was a Dutch genre painter who lived in the Dutch Golden Age. He influenced fellow Dutch painters Gabriel Metsu, Gerrit Dou, Eglon van der Neer and Johanne ...

. It shows a man on horseback slumped in the saddle, moving away from the viewer. It is in the collection of the

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston The Museum of Fine Arts (often abbreviated as MFA Boston or MFA) is an art museum in Boston, Massachusetts. It is the 20th-largest art museum in the world, measured by public gallery area. It contains 8,161 paintings and more than 450,000 works ...

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This painting came into the collection by a 1961 purchase. It had been sold from the estate of

Martha Dana Mercer Martha Mercer, née Dana (1872–1960) was a US art collector and philanthropist. She was the daughter of Charles Stratton Dana of the Dana family of Boston. She became friends with Isabella Stewart Gardner who arranged for her to have her portrai ...

. Two other versions by the artist from the same period are: File:Gerard ter Borch - Man on Horseback Seen From Behind.jpg, ''Man on Horseback Seen From Behind'', c. 1634 File:Gerard ter Borch - Reiter, von hinten gesehen fmc663637.jpg, ''Man on Horseback Seen From Behind'', c. 1634

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''Man on Horseback Seen From Behind''
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