Gabriel Metsu
A Woman Composing Music, with an Inquisitive Man
c. 1664-4757.8 x 43.5 cm.
Oil on panel
Mauritshuis, The Hague
Literature
Catalogues raisonnés
Waiboer A-130
Collection catalogues
Compiled by Quentin Buvelot, Royal Picture Gallery Mauritshuis, The Hague; Zwolle, 2004, pp. 196-197
Literature
Wayne Franits, Dutch Seventeenth-Century Genre Painting, New Haven, 2004, fig. 171
Adriaan E. Waiboer, Gabriel Metsu, New Haven and London, 2010, fig. 139
Desmond Shawe-Taylor and Quentin Buvelot, Masters of the Everyday, London; Brussels, 2015, fig. 27
Adriaan E. Waiboer, with Arthur K. Wheelock, Jr and Blaise Ducos, Vermeer and the masters of genre painting, Dublin, Washington, Paris, New Haven and London, 2017, fig. 89
Paul Schnabel, Anders gekeken, Zwolle, 2021, fig. 406
Aneta Georgievska-Shine, Vermeer and the Art of Love, London, 2022, fig. 18
Pennen over penselen, Den Haag; Zwolle, 2022, pp. 102-103
Provenance
Govert van Slingelandt, The Hague
the entire collection sold to Willem V in 1768
Prince Willem V, The Hague, 1768-1795
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Other works by Gabriël Metsu
The Vegatable Market in Amsterdam
c. 1660-61
c. 1660-61
A Woman with a Glass and a Jug
c. 1655-57
c. 1655-57
An Old Woman Asleep
A Man and a Woman Sharing a Meal
c. 1655-58
c. 1655-58
The cook