Literature
Catalogues raisonnés
HdG 180
Waiboer A-74
Collection catalogues
Pieter J.J. van Thiel, C.J. de Bruyn Kops, Jola Cleveringa, Wouter Kloek, Annemarie Vels Heijn, All the paintings of the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam, Amsterdam; Maarssen, 1976, p. 379
Literature
Wayne Franits, Dutch Seventeenth-Century Genre Painting, New Haven, 2004, fig. 166
Adriaan E. Waiboer, Gabriel Metsu, New Haven and London, 2010, fig. 94
Stephan Koja, Uta Neidhardt, Arthur K. Wheelock Jr. (eds.), Johannes Vermeer. On Reflection, Dresden, 2021, p. 148, fig. 19
Aneta Georgievska-Shine, Vermeer and the Art of Love, London, 2022, fig. 26
Other works by Gabriël Metsu
A Woman Giving Fish Bones to a Cat (The Cat's Breakfast)
c. 1661/64
c. 1661/64
A Woman Tuning her Cittern, Approached by a Man
c. 1659-62
c. 1659-62
Still Life with a Dead Cockerel
c. 1655-58
c. 1655-58
The Dismissal of Hagar
c. 1653-54
c. 1653-54
A Blacksmith at Work
c. 1653-54
c. 1653-54