Gabriel Metsu
A Man Writing a Letter
c. 1664-6652 x 40.5 cm
Oil on panel
National Gallery of Ireland, Dublin
Sir Alfred and Lady Beit Gift
Literature
Catalogues raisonnés
HdG 185
Waiboer A-116
Literature
Christopher Brown, Scenes of everyday life, London; Boston, 1984, p. 122
Adriaan E. Waiboer, Gabriel Metsu, New Haven and London, 2010, fig. 31
Marjorie E. Wieseman, Vermeer's Women, New Haven [Conn.], 2011, fig. 72
Anna Tummers, The eye of the connoisseur, Amsterdam, 2011, fig. 75
Reinier Baarsen, Kwab, Amsterdam, 2018, fig. 209
Stephan Koja, Uta Neidhardt, Arthur K. Wheelock Jr. (eds.), Johannes Vermeer. On Reflection, Dresden, 2021, p. 60, fig. 19, p. 75, fig. 7
Exhibitions
2021 Johannes Vermeer. On Reflection, Nr. 40
2017 Vermeer and the Masters of Genre Painting: Inspiration and Rivalry, Nr. 3
2010 Gabriel Metsu, Nr. 15
2000 Glory of the Golden Age: Dutch art of the 17th century, Nr. 141a
Other works by Gabriël Metsu
An Old Couple Feeding a Dog
c. 1654-57
c. 1654-57
Portrait of Lucia Wijbrants (?)
1667
1667
An Old Man Selling Poultry and Game
A Woman Selling Herrings
c. 1656/58
c. 1656/58
The Sick Child
c. 1664/46
c. 1664/46