reading135 gabriel metsu
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Queen’s Gallery at Buckingham Palace exhibition features works from the greats of the Dutch Golden Age
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Gabriel Metsu
(Dutch, 1629-1667) Portrait of a Lady 1667
Lucia Wijbrants
(1638-1719)Minneapolis
Institute of Art
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Gabriel Metsu
(Dutch, 1629-1667) Portrait of a Lady 1667
(details)
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Gabriel Metsu (after) An interior with a seated lady playing a cittern
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Gabriel Metsu (Dutch, 1629–1667) A Woman Composing Music, with an Inquisitive Man
Royal Picture Gallery Mauritshuis, The Hague
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Gabriel Metsu
(Dutch, 1629-1667)
A young woman
writing at her desk
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Gabriel Metsu A young woman writing at her desk (Detail)
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Gabriel Metsu (after) Portrait of an artist at his easel, probably a self-portrait
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Gab
riel M
etsu
- A
Mus
ical
Par
ty -
Met
ropo
litan
Mus
eum
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Gabriel Metsu (Dutch, 1629 - 1667) A notary sharpening his pen, in an interior (Christies Price Realised GBP 43,750 USD 71,662)
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Gabriel MetsuA notary sharpening
his pen, in an interior (Details)
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Gabriel Metsu (Dutch, 1629 - 1667) A Woman at her Toilet
The Norton Simon Foundation, Pasadena, California
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Gabriel Metsu (after)A Woman Meditating Bath, Victoria Art Gallery
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Gabriel Metsu (Dutch, 1629–1667) An Old Woman Asleep
The Wallace Collection, London
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Gabriel Metsu (Dutch, 1629–1667) A Woman Reading a Letter National Gallery of Ireland, Dublin
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Gabriel Metsu A Woman Reading a Letter(Details)
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Gabriel Metsu (Dutch, 1629–1667) A Woman seated at a Table and a Man tuning a Violin The National Gallery, London
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Gabriel Metsu A Woman seated at a Table and a Man tuning a Violin (Detail)
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Gabriel Metsu (Dutch, 1629–1667) A Woman Asleep with a book on Her LapGalleria Franchetti Ca' d'Oro - Venice
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Gab
riel M
etsu
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Gabriel Metsu (Dutch, 1629–1667) A Woman with a Book at a Window
Kunstmuseum Hamburg
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Gabriel Metsu (Dutch, 1629–1667) A Woman Writing a Letter
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Gabriel Metsu (Dutch, 1629–1667) A Woman Writing a Letter 1658-61
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An Old Woman with a Book The National Gallery, London
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An Old Woman with a Book The National Gallery, London (Detail)
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Gabriel Metsu (Dutch, 1629–1667) Christ and the Woman Taken in Adultery
Musée du Louvre
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Gabriel Metsu (Dutch, 1629–1667) Femme en agonie ou « La mort de Sophonisbe »
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
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Gabriel Metsu (Dutch, 1629–1667) Interior with a Lady at a Spinet and a
Gentleman Offering Her a Glass of Wine English Heritage, Ranger's House
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Gabriel Metsu (Dutch, 1629–1667) A Woman Holding an Apple (Lady Seated in a Window) 1661-63 Metropolitan Museum of Art
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A Woman Holding an Apple (Lady Seated in a Window) detail
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A Woman Holding an Apple (Lady Seated in a Window) detail
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A Man Tuning a Violoncello and a Woman Descending the Stairs Royal Collection, Buckingham Palace
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A W
oman
Hol
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a B
ook,
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se
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Gabriel Metsu (Dutch, 1629–1667) The Hunters Present Rijksmuseum
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The Hunters Present (Detail)
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Gabriel Metsu (Dutch, 1629–1667) The Intruder [c.1660] National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
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Gabriel Metsu (Dutch, 1629–1667) The Letter Writer Surprised The Wallace Collection London
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Studio of Gabriel Metsu (Dutch, 1629–1667) The Music Lesson
Cannon Hall Museum, Park and Gardens, Barnsley
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Gab
riel M
etsu
(Dut
ch, 1
629–
1667
) W
oman
Pla
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Gabriel Metsu (Dutch, 1629–1667) A Man Writing a Letter Musee Fabre, Montpellier, France
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Gabriel Metsu (Dutch, 1629–1667) A Moneylender Visited by a Weeping Woman [1654]
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
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Gabriel Metsu (Dutch, 1629–1667) Doddus and the Covetous Woman 1653-54 Nationalmuseum, Stockholm
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Gab
riel M
etsu
(Dut
ch, 1
629–
1667
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Boy
Ste
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Gabriel Metsu (Dutch, 1629–1667) The NoteThe Walters Art Museum, Baltimore, Maryland
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Gabriel Metsu A girl receiving a letter, ca.1658 San Diego, Timken Museum
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Gabriel Metsu - Man and Woman seated by a Virginal The National Gallery, London
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Gab
riel M
etsu
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Sound: Willem de Fesch (1687-1761) Sonata in D major, Op.61 2016
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Gabriel Metsu (1629–1667), one of the leading Dutch genre painters of the seventeenth century, mastered a wide range of subjects, techniques, and styles over the course of his twenty-two-year career. Metsu was a gifted visual storyteller whose skill at evoking human emotions.Gabriel Metsu was much more than a gifted genre painter. As a young artist, he created history paintings and biblical scenes, and in the mid-1660s he returned to religious themes. Together with his technical facility, this thematic versatility is what made—and continues to make—his artistic career so fascinating. Metsu combined his renewed emphasis on religious subjects, particularly those with a Catholic character, with the increased stylization and theatricality that marked this period of Dutch painting.Born at Leiden, in January 1629, son of the painter Jacques Metsu, under whom he probably first studied. He also studied with Dou. In 1648 he was a founder member of the guild in Leiden; he left c. 1650 for a time, but was resident again in 1652 and 1654. He may have visited Utrecht as he seems also to have been influenced by Utrecht artists, particularly Nicolaus Knüpfer and J.B. Weenix. By 1657 he had settled in Amsterdam where he lived on the Prinsengracht and where he was buried on 24 October 1667. In Leiden he had painted some history subjects, but he came to specialize in genre scenes reflecting the influences of Maes and ter Borch and latterly of the Delft School. His technique evolved from the quite broadly painted Leiden works to the meticulous fijnschilder manner of his later Amsterdam years. He occasionally painted portraits and still lifes. One of his best-known works, The Sick Child (Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam), is often compared with Vermeer. His work is rarely dated, so his development and relationships with other artists are difficult to trace.