Gabriel Metsu
A Woman Seated at a Window
early 1660s27.6 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
Other works by Gabriël Metsu
A Woman Holding up a Plaice
c. 1656-58
c. 1656-58
A Hunter with a Glass of Wine
1661
1661
The Triumph of Justice
c. 1651-53
c. 1651-53
The Sick Woman
1657-59
1657-59
The Sleeping Sportsman