Gabriel Metsu
A Cavalier Visiting a Blacksmith's Shop
c. 1654-5665.4 x 73.3 cm.
Oil on canvas
Signed on the right, centre (on the window frame): GMetsu (GM in monogram)
The National Gallery, London
Literature
Catalogues raisonnés
HdG 220
Waiboer A-17
Collection catalogues
Neil MacLaren, revised and expanded by Christopher Brown, The Dutch school, 1600-1900, London, 1991, pp. 258-259, plate 220
Christopher Baker and Tom Henry, The National Gallery complete illustrated catalogue, London, 2001, p. 450
Literature
Adriaan E. Waiboer, Gabriel Metsu, New Haven and London, 2010, fig. 116
Linda Stone-Ferrier, The little street, New Haven, 2022, fig. 77
Exhibitions
2015 Class Distinctions: Dutch Painting in the Age of Rembrandt and Vermeer, Nr. 73
2010 Gabriel Metsu, Nr. 21
Provenance
Abraham Delfos et al. sale, The Hague, 10 June 1807, nr. 71
Baroness van Leyden sale, Warmond Castle, near Leiden, 31 July 1816, nr. 25, bought by Coclers
anonymous sale, Christie's, 26 June 1824, nr. 38, bought in
Revd W. Jones Thomas (of Llanthomas Hayon, Breconshire) sale, London, 10 July 1886, nr. 164, bought by Salting
National Gallery, London, George Salting Bequest, 1910
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Other works by Gabriël Metsu
A Woman at her Toilet
c. 1654-57
c. 1654-57
A Woman Writing a Letter
c. 1662-64
c. 1662-64
An Old Woman Baking Pancakes, with a Boy
c. 1655/58
c. 1655/58
Dives and Lazarus
c. 1650/52
c. 1650/52
A Lady Working Lace