Gabriel Metsu
Woman Cleaning Fish
c. 1657-5830.5 x 27.3 cm
Oil on canvas
Signed in brown paint along table edge, lower left: G Metsu
The Leiden Collection, New York
Provenance
Sale, Paillet and Delaroche, Paris, 18–25 April 1803, nr. 143 (sold to Sigismund Ehrenreich, Graf von Redern, for 1510 francs)
Marquis Marialva, by 1825 (bought by John Smith for £80 before 1833)
Héris, Brussels, by 1833
Désiré van den Schrieck, Leuven
her sale, Le Roy, Brussels, 8–11 April, 1861, nr. 52 (sold to Allard in Douai for 6,400 francs)
private collection, France
sale, Drouot, Paris, 22 June 1990, nr. 22, (sold for 2,000,000 francs)
with Agnew’s, London, 1992
with Agnew’s / Salomon Lilian B. V., Amsterdam, 2001
private collection, The Hague, by 2001
with Salomon Lilian B. V., Amsterdam, 2004
from whom acquired by the present owner in 2004
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Other works by Gabriël Metsu
Smoker Seated at a Table
c. 1654-57
c. 1654-57
Public Notary
c. 165(3?)
c. 165(3?)
Old Woman at Her Meal in an Interior
c. 1654-57
c. 1654-57
The Alms
c. 1660
c. 1660
The Apothecary
1660-63
1660-63