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Gabriel Metsu 1629-1667
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Gabriel Metsu Galleries
One of his earliest pictures is the "Lazarus" at the Strassburg Museum, painted under the influence of Jan Steen. In 1653 under the influence of Rembrandt he painted "Woman taken in Adultery," a large picture which is now in the Louvre. To the same period belong the "Departure of Hagar," formerly in the Thore collection, and the "Widow's Mite" at the Schwerin Gallery. But he probably observed that sacred art was ill suited to his temper, or he found the field too strongly occupied, and turned to other subjects for which he was better fitted. That at one time he was deeply impressed by the vivacity and bold technique of Frans Hals can be gathered from Lord Lonsdale's picture of "Women at a Fishmonger's Shop."
What Metsu undertook and carried out from the first with surprising success was the low life of the market and tavern, contrasted, with wonderful versatility, by incidents of high life and the drawing-room. In no single instance do the artistic lessons of Rembrandt appear to have been lost upon him. The same principles of light and shade which had marked his schoolwork in the "Woman taken in Adultery" were applied to subjects of quite a different kind. A group in a drawing-room, a series of groups in the market-place, or a single figure in the gloom of a tavern or parlour, was treated with the utmost felicity by fit concentration and gradation of light, a warm flush of tone pervading every part, and, with that, the study of texture in stuffs was carried as far as it had been by Ter Borch or Gerard Dou, if not with the finish or the brio of De Hooch.
One of the best pictures of Metsu's manhood is the "Market-place of Amsterdam," at the Louvre, respecting which it is difficult to distribute praise in fair proportions, so excellent are the various parts, the characteristic movement and action of the dramatis personae, the selection of faces, the expression and the gesture, and the texture of the things depicted. Equally fine, though earlier, are the "Sportsman" (dated 1661) and the "Tavern" (also 1661) at the Hague and Dresden Museums, and the "Game-Dealer's Shop," also at Dresden, with the painter's signature and 1662.
Gabriel Metsu, Man Writing a Letter (1662-1665), Oil on canvas, National Gallery of Ireland, DublinAmong the five examples of the painter in the Wallace Collection, are "The Tabby Cat," and "The Sleeping Sportsman," which cost Lord Hertford £ 3000, is an admirable example technically considered. Among his finest representations of home life are the "Repast" at the Hermitage in St Petersburg; the "Mother nursing her Sick Child" in the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam; the "Amateur Musicians" at the Hague Gallery; the "Duet" and the "Music Lesson" at the National Gallery, London, and many more examples at nearly all the leading European galleries. Five of his painting are in Dresden, collected by August the Strong. |
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Gabriel Metsu Breakfast 1660
The Hermitage, St.Petersburg
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Gabriel Metsu The Music Lesson c1658
National Gallery, London
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Gabriel Metsu The Bean Feast Pinakothek, Munich
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Gabriel Metsu The Lazy Tippler (mk05) Wood 11 x 10 1/2''(28 x 27 cm)Seized in the Revolution INV
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Gabriel Metsu The Busy Cook (nk05) Wood 11 x 10 1/4''(28 x 26 cm)Seized in the Revolution INV
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Gabriel Metsu The King Drinks (mk08) c.1650-1655
Oil on canvas.
80.9x97.9cm
Munich,Bayerische Staatsgemaldesammlungen,Alte Pinakothek
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Gabriel Metsu The Music Lesson (nn03) c 1658
OIl on canvas 38.4 x 32.2 15 1/8 x 12 3/4 in National Gallery London
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Gabriel Metsu The Cello Player (mk25) c 1665
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Gabriel Metsu Self-Portrait with his Wife Isabella de Wolff in an Inn mk52
1661
Oil on wood
35.5x30.5cm
Gemaldegalerie,Dresden
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Gabriel Metsu Dead Cock mk61
Oil on panel
57x40cm
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Gabriel Metsu A Lady and a Cavalier mk65
Oil on panel
22 13/16x16 11/16in
Uffizi
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Gabriel Metsu Visit of the Physician nn07
1660-67
Oil on canvas, 61 x 48 cm
The Hermitage, St. Petersburg
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Gabriel Metsu The King Drinks mk86
c.1650-1655
OIl on canva
80.9x98.9cm
Munich,Bayerische Staatsgemaldesammlungen,Alte Pinakothek
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Gabriel Metsu Noli me tangere mk150
1667
63.7x51cm
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Gabriel Metsu A Man and a Woman Seated by a Virginal mk156
c.1665
Oil on canvas
76x68cm
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Gabriel Metsu Treating to Oysters mk159
c.1660
Oil on panel
55.5x42cm
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Gabriel Metsu A Young Woman Seated Drawing mk170
1655-1660
OIl on oak
36.3x30.7cm
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Gabriel Metsu A Woman Seated at a Table and a Man Tuning a Violin mk170
circa 1658
oil on canvas
43x37.5cm
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Gabriel Metsu The bean festival mk186
1650-55 Munchen, old Pinakothek
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Gabriel Metsu Apple scarf end woman mk186
around 1660 Paris muse you Louvre
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Gabriel Metsu
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1629-1667
Dutch
Gabriel Metsu Galleries
One of his earliest pictures is the "Lazarus" at the Strassburg Museum, painted under the influence of Jan Steen. In 1653 under the influence of Rembrandt he painted "Woman taken in Adultery," a large picture which is now in the Louvre. To the same period belong the "Departure of Hagar," formerly in the Thore collection, and the "Widow's Mite" at the Schwerin Gallery. But he probably observed that sacred art was ill suited to his temper, or he found the field too strongly occupied, and turned to other subjects for which he was better fitted. That at one time he was deeply impressed by the vivacity and bold technique of Frans Hals can be gathered from Lord Lonsdale's picture of "Women at a Fishmonger's Shop."
What Metsu undertook and carried out from the first with surprising success was the low life of the market and tavern, contrasted, with wonderful versatility, by incidents of high life and the drawing-room. In no single instance do the artistic lessons of Rembrandt appear to have been lost upon him. The same principles of light and shade which had marked his schoolwork in the "Woman taken in Adultery" were applied to subjects of quite a different kind. A group in a drawing-room, a series of groups in the market-place, or a single figure in the gloom of a tavern or parlour, was treated with the utmost felicity by fit concentration and gradation of light, a warm flush of tone pervading every part, and, with that, the study of texture in stuffs was carried as far as it had been by Ter Borch or Gerard Dou, if not with the finish or the brio of De Hooch.
One of the best pictures of Metsu's manhood is the "Market-place of Amsterdam," at the Louvre, respecting which it is difficult to distribute praise in fair proportions, so excellent are the various parts, the characteristic movement and action of the dramatis personae, the selection of faces, the expression and the gesture, and the texture of the things depicted. Equally fine, though earlier, are the "Sportsman" (dated 1661) and the "Tavern" (also 1661) at the Hague and Dresden Museums, and the "Game-Dealer's Shop," also at Dresden, with the painter's signature and 1662.
Gabriel Metsu, Man Writing a Letter (1662-1665), Oil on canvas, National Gallery of Ireland, DublinAmong the five examples of the painter in the Wallace Collection, are "The Tabby Cat," and "The Sleeping Sportsman," which cost Lord Hertford £ 3000, is an admirable example technically considered. Among his finest representations of home life are the "Repast" at the Hermitage in St Petersburg; the "Mother nursing her Sick Child" in the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam; the "Amateur Musicians" at the Hague Gallery; the "Duet" and the "Music Lesson" at the National Gallery, London, and many more examples at nearly all the leading European galleries. Five of his painting are in Dresden, collected by August the Strong.
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