Gabriel Metsu

Literature

Catalogues raisonnés
HdG 2
Waiboer A-10

Literature
Adriaan E. Waiboer, Gabriel Metsu, New Haven and London, 2010, fig. 111
Paul Schnabel, Anders gekeken, Zwolle, 2021, fig. 392

Exhibitions

2014 Rembrandt and the Dutch Golden Age, Nr. 111
2010 Gabriel Metsu, Nr. 20

Provenance

Pierre-Jean Aerts d'Opdorp
his sale, Brussels 29 July 1819, nr. 23
Guillaume Joseph Verbelen, 1819
Comtesse Lacroix, Paris
W. Thoré Bürger, Paris, by 1837
his sale, Paris, 5 December 1892, nr. 35
Hugó von Kilényi, Budapest
his sale, Budapest 26 November 1917, nr. 84
N. Schiffer, Budapest, 1935
sale Christie's, London, 23 November 1956, nr. 56
Árpád Bíró, Budapest
sale Christie's, London, 1 April 1960, nr. 42
F.E.S. Moniz Galvao, Lisbon
sale Christie's, London, 2 February 1976, nr. 56
The Leger Galleries, London
bought with financial support of the Vereniging Rembrandt by Museum De Lakenhal in 1978
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Iconclass

71C1283 Hagar and Ishmael (often with bow and arrow) depart

Other works by Gabriël Metsu

A Blacksmith at Work
c. 1653-54

An Old Woman Preparing Herrings
1661/63

A Doctor's Visit
c. 1664-67

A Baker Blowing his Horn
c. 1660/63

An Old Man Holding a Pipe and a Jug
c. 1661-63