Gabriel Metsu

A Woman Reading a Letter



Gabriel Metsu - A Woman Reading a Letter



Gabriel Metsu
A Woman Reading a Letter
c. 1664-66
52.5 x 40.2 cm
Oil on panel
National Gallery of Ireland, Dublin
Sir Alfred and Lady Beit Gift


Literature

Catalogues raisonnés
HdG 184
Waiboer A-117

Literature
Christopher Brown, Scenes of everyday life, London; Boston, 1984, p. 123
Mariët Westermann, Art & home, Zwolle, 2001, fig. 126
Lyckle de Vries, Verhalen uit kamer, keuken en kroeg, [Amsterdam], 2005, plate 65
Thijs Weststeijn, The visible world, Amsterdam, 2008, fig. 59
Adriaan E. Waiboer, Gabriel Metsu, New Haven and London, 2010, fig. 32
Adriaan E. Waiboer, Vermeer's Impact on His Contemporaries in Oud Holland, 123, 2010 pp. 51-64, fig. 4
Marjorie E. Wieseman, Vermeer's Women, New Haven [Conn.], 2011, fig. 73
Anna Tummers, The eye of the connoisseur, Amsterdam, 2011, fig. 76
Stephan Koja, Uta Neidhardt, Arthur K. Wheelock Jr. (eds.), Johannes Vermeer. On Reflection, Dresden, 2021, p. 60, fig. 18, p. 74, fig. 6



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Gabriel Metsu An Old Woman Selling Fish and Vegetables
An Old Woman Selling Fish and Vegetables
1656/58

Gabriel Metsu Portrait of Jan Jacobsz. Hinlopen and his Family
Portrait of Jan Jacobsz. Hinlopen and his Family
c. 1662-63

Gabriel Metsu A Woman Giving Fish Bones to a Cat (The Cat's Breakfast)
A Woman Giving Fish Bones to a Cat (The Cat's Breakfast)
c. 1661/64

Gabriel Metsu A Moneylender Visited by a Weeping Woman
A Moneylender Visited by a Weeping Woman
1654

Gabriel Metsu Still Life with a Dead Cockerel
Still Life with a Dead Cockerel
c. 1655-58