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

Gabriel Metsu

(Dutch, 1629-1667) Portrait of a Lady 1667

(details)

Gabriel Metsu (after) An interior with a seated lady playing a cittern

Gabriel Metsu (Dutch, 1629–1667) A Woman Composing Music, with an Inquisitive Man

Royal Picture Gallery Mauritshuis, The Hague

Gabriel Metsu

(Dutch, 1629-1667)

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writing at her desk

Gabriel Metsu A young woman writing at her desk (Detail)

Gabriel Metsu (after) Portrait of an artist at his easel, probably a self-portrait

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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)

Gabriel MetsuA notary sharpening

his pen, in an interior (Details)

Gabriel Metsu (Dutch, 1629 - 1667) A Woman at her Toilet

The Norton Simon Foundation, Pasadena, California

Gabriel Metsu (after)A Woman Meditating Bath, Victoria Art Gallery

Gabriel Metsu (Dutch, 1629–1667) An Old Woman Asleep

The Wallace Collection, London

Gabriel Metsu (Dutch, 1629–1667) A Woman Reading a Letter National Gallery of Ireland, Dublin

Gabriel Metsu A Woman Reading a Letter(Details)

Gabriel Metsu (Dutch, 1629–1667) A Woman seated at a Table and a Man tuning a Violin The National Gallery, London

Gabriel Metsu A Woman seated at a Table and a Man tuning a Violin (Detail)

Gabriel Metsu (Dutch, 1629–1667) A Woman Asleep with a book on Her LapGalleria Franchetti Ca' d'Oro - Venice

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Gabriel Metsu (Dutch, 1629–1667) A Woman with a Book at a Window

Kunstmuseum Hamburg

Gabriel Metsu (Dutch, 1629–1667) A Woman Writing a Letter

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An Old Woman with a Book The National Gallery, London

An Old Woman with a Book The National Gallery, London (Detail)

Gabriel Metsu (Dutch, 1629–1667) Christ and the Woman Taken in Adultery

Musée du Louvre

Gabriel Metsu (Dutch, 1629–1667) Femme en agonie ou « La mort de Sophonisbe »

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

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

Gabriel Metsu (Dutch, 1629–1667) A Woman Holding an Apple (Lady Seated in a Window) 1661-63 Metropolitan Museum of Art

A Woman Holding an Apple (Lady Seated in a Window) detail

A Woman Holding an Apple (Lady Seated in a Window) detail

A Man Tuning a Violoncello and a Woman Descending the Stairs Royal Collection, Buckingham Palace

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Gabriel Metsu (Dutch, 1629–1667) The Hunters Present Rijksmuseum

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Gabriel Metsu (Dutch, 1629–1667) The Intruder [c.1660] National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC

Gabriel Metsu (Dutch, 1629–1667) The Letter Writer Surprised The Wallace Collection London

Studio of Gabriel Metsu (Dutch, 1629–1667) The Music Lesson

Cannon Hall Museum, Park and Gardens, Barnsley

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Gabriel Metsu (Dutch, 1629–1667) A Man Writing a Letter Musee Fabre, Montpellier, France

Gabriel Metsu (Dutch, 1629–1667) A Moneylender Visited by a Weeping Woman [1654]

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

Gabriel Metsu (Dutch, 1629–1667) Doddus and the Covetous Woman 1653-54 Nationalmuseum, Stockholm

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Gabriel Metsu (Dutch, 1629–1667) The NoteThe Walters Art Museum, Baltimore, Maryland

Gabriel Metsu A girl receiving a letter, ca.1658 San Diego, Timken Museum

Gabriel Metsu - Man and Woman seated by a Virginal The National Gallery, London

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Presentation: Sanda Foişoreanuhttps://plus.google.com/+SandaMichaela

Sound: Willem de Fesch (1687-1761) Sonata in D major, Op.61 2016

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.