Gabriel Metsu
Old Woman at Her Meal in an Interior
c. 1654-5782.6 x 68.7 cm
Oil on canvas
Indistinctly signed in light paint on wall mirror, center: ___ETSU
The Leiden Collection, New York
Provenance
Alexis-Joseph Febvre (1810–1881), Paris
his sale, Hotel Drouot, George, Le Roy, Lechat, Chevallier, Paris, 17–20 April 1882, nr. 74 (for fr. 3,500 to possibly Elhnazaer)
collection M. Elhnazaer
sale, Musée Galliera, Ader, Couturier, Paris, 9 December 1961, nr. 31
private collection, France, by 1971
sale, Guignard, Hôtel des Ventes Gabriel, Lorient, 2 July 2000, not sold
sale, Mercier et Cie, Lille, 23 June 2002, nr. 225
with Salomon Lilian, B.V., Amsterdam, and Kunsthandel P. de Boer, Amsterdam, 2002
from whom acquired by the present owner in 2003
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Other works by Gabriël Metsu
Public Notary
c. 165(3?)
c. 165(3?)
Woman Cleaning Fish
c. 1657-58
c. 1657-58
The Alms
c. 1660
c. 1660
The Apothecary
1660-63
1660-63
The Lacemaker
c. 1660
c. 1660