Gabriel Metsu
The Duet
c. 166043 x 37.5 cm
Oil on canvas
Signed, below the window, left: G Metsu
The National Gallery, London
Literature
Catalogues raisonnés
HdG 154
Waiboer A-69
Collection catalogues
Neil MacLaren, revised and expanded by Christopher Brown, The Dutch school, 1600-1900, London, 1991, pp. 254-255, plate 216
Christopher Baker and Tom Henry, The National Gallery complete illustrated catalogue, London, 2001, p. 451
Literature
Mariët Westermann, Art & home, Zwolle, 2001, fig. 133
Provenance
Duc de Choiseul sale, Paris, 6 sqq. April 1772, nr. 20, bought by Vicomte de Choiseul
Choiseul-Praslin sale, Paris, 18 sqq. February 1793, nr. 63, bought by Paillet
Pierre Fouquet Junr sale, Amsterdam, 13 sqq. April 1801, nr. 42, bought by C.S. Roos
Paillet and Coders sale, Paris, 26 sqq. August 1801, nr. 10, bought in
Solirène sale, Paris, 11 sqq. March 1812, nr. 60, bought by Lebrun
collection of Prince de Talleyrand, Paris, apparently by 1814
in the catalogue of the [Prince de Talleyrand] sale, Paris, announced for 9 July 1817, nr. 20 but
the sale did not take place, the whole collection having been bought by William Buchanan who brought it to England
sold by Buchanan to John Webb, London, from whom it passed into the collection of Sébastien Erard, Paris
afterwards bought by John Smith
perhaps lent by (Sir) Robert Peel (Bart.) to the BI, 1823, nr. 75 or 1824, nr. 77
Robert Peel by 1833
National Gallery, London, purchased with the Peel collection, 1871
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Other works by Gabriël Metsu
The Triumph of Justice
c. 1651-53
c. 1651-53
The Sleeping Sportsman
Girl receiving a letter
c. 1658
c. 1658
The Music Lesson
c. 1659-62
c. 1659-62
The Sick Woman
1657-59
1657-59