Gabriel Metsu
Woman Selling Game from a Stall
c. 1653-54161.3 x 130 cm
Oil on canvas
Signed in dark paint on side of wooden barrel, lower right: Gmetfu (Gm in ligature)
The Leiden Collection, New York
Provenance
With Art dealer Lesser, London, 1887
Sir Thomas-Fermor Hesketh, 8th Baronet, later 1st Baron Hesketh (1881–1944), Easton Neston, Northamptonshire
thence by direct family descent
sale, Sotheby’s, London, 8 July 2009, nr. 9
with Johnny van Haeften, London
from whom acquired by the present owner in 2009
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Other works by Gabriël Metsu
A Lady at Her Toilet
Young Man Smoking and A Woman Pouring Beer
c. 1656-58
c. 1656-58
Woman Reading a Book by a Window
c. 1653-54
c. 1653-54
A Cavalier on Horseback before an Inn
Young Woman Seated in an Interior, Reading a Letter
c. 1658-61
c. 1658-61