Gabriel Metsu
Hunter Getting Dressed after Bathing
c. 1654-5651.7 x 63.8 cm
Oil on panel
Signed in dark paint, lower center, on gunstock: GMetsù. (GM in ligature)
The Leiden Collection, New York
Literature
Aneta Georgievska-Shine, Vermeer and the Art of Love, London, 2022, fig. 30
Paul Schnabel, Anders gekeken, Zwolle, 2021, fig. 394
Provenance
Probably Thomas Mayden, Amsterdam, by 1662 (his inventory, 29 October 1662)
Lucas Merens, Hoorn
his sale, Ploos van Amstel, Hendrik de Winter, and Jan Yver, Amsterdam, 15 April 1778, nr. 60 (to Jan Spaan for 52 guilders; Lebrun, Paris, by 1780)
François Tronchin des Délices, Bessinge, by 1780, for 4,000 “livres”
his sale, Constantin and Boileau, 23–24 March 1801, nr. 110
by descent to Jean-Louis Robert Tronchin, Bessinge
by descent to Armand Henri Tronchin, Bessinge
by descent to Louis-Rémy Nosky Tronchin, Bessinge
by descent to Henry Tronchin, Bessinge
by descent to Robert Tronchin, Bessinge, 1928
Xavier Givaudan, Bessinge (who purchased the paintings collection with the domain), by 1938
by descent to André Givaudan, Bessinge, by 1974
sale, Lord Chetwode et. al., anonymous part, Christie’s, London, 12 December 1980, nr. 110
anonymous sale, Koller, Zürich, 15–16 May, 1981, nr. 5088
Jean Charles Lignel
his sale, Jean Claude Anaf, Lyon, 20 October 1991, nr. 59
private collection, United States
with Otto Naumann Ltd, New York, 2007
from whom acquired by the present owner
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Other works by Gabriël Metsu
Woman Selling Game from a Stall
c. 1653-54
c. 1653-54
Young Woman Seated in an Interior, Reading a Letter
c. 1658-61
c. 1658-61
Smoker Seated at a Table
c. 1654-57
c. 1654-57
Public Notary
c. 165(3?)
c. 165(3?)
Woman Cleaning Fish
c. 1657-58
c. 1657-58