Gabriel Metsu

A Woman Seated at a Window



Gabriel Metsu - A Woman Seated at a Window



Gabriel Metsu
A Woman Seated at a Window
early 1660s
27.6 x 22.5 cm
Oil on wood
Signed bottom center: G. Metsu
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
The Jack and Belle Linsky Collection, 1982


Literature

Catalogues raisonnés
Waiboer A-92

Collection catalogues
Wilhelm von Bode, Die Gemäldesammlung Marcus Kappel in Berlin, Berlin, 1914, nr. 16
Walter Liedtke, Dutch paintings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, New Haven, 2007, nr. 117

Literature
Wayne Franits, Dutch Seventeenth-Century Genre Painting, New Haven, 2004, fig. 168


Provenance

Mr. Chaplin, Copenhagen, later England
Edmund Higginson, Saltmarsh Castle, Herefordshire, by 1842–46
his sale, Christie's, London, 4 June 1846, nr. 95
Madame Duval, until 1904
her estate sale, Hôtel Drouot, Paris, 28 November 1904, nr. 9, to Kleinberger
with Kleinberger, Paris, from 1904
Marcus Kappel, Berlin, by 1906–30
his sale, Cassirer & Helbing, Berlin, 25 November 1930, nr. 11
Mr. and Mrs. Jack Linsky, New York, until his death 1980
The Jack and Belle Linsky Foundation, New York, 1980–82

External links

RKD 51092
Metropolitan Museum of Art Accession number 1982.60.32

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Gabriel Metsu The cook
The cook

Gabriel Metsu The Letter Writer Surpised
The Letter Writer Surpised

Gabriel Metsu A Woman Holding up a Plaice
A Woman Holding up a Plaice
c. 1656-58

Gabriel Metsu A Hunter with a Glass of Wine
A Hunter with a Glass of Wine
1661

Gabriel Metsu The Triumph of Justice
The Triumph of Justice
c. 1651-53