Gabriel Metsu

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Gabriel Metsu, Young Man Writing a Letter by the Window (1662–1665), National Gallery of Ireland, Dublin
Gabriel Metsu, Lady Reading a Letter (1665), National Gallery of Ireland

Gabriel Metsu (born January 1629 in Leiden , † October 24, 1667 in Amsterdam ) was a Dutch painter.

Life

Metsu was the son of the Flemish painter Jacques Metsu from Belle. His father had died when Gabriel was born.

Gabriel Metsu may have been a student of Gerard Dou or Jan Steen . In 1648, at the age of 18, Metsu was accepted as a member of the painters' guild in his hometown. Around 1655, after the death of his parents, he moved to Utrecht and studied with Jan Baptist Weenix and Nikolaus Knüpfer (1609–1655), a painter from Leipzig. Two years later he settled in Amsterdam as a freelance artist. Here he lived in an alley not far from the vegetable market. He moved because of a neighbor who didn't like the noise of his chickens. In 1658 he married Isabella Wolff.

In 1659 Metsu received the citizenship of the city of Amsterdam. As a painter, he received several commissions from the cloth merchant Jan J. Hinlopen , who was an important collector in his day.

Metsu mostly devoted himself to genre painting and created moral images and conversational pieces from the upper class bourgeois life, sometimes with a humorous approach, in clear, soft colors. He also painted portraits .

Works (selection)

  • The Amsterdam vegetable market
  • A lady at the piano , 1660/67, Rotterdam, Boijmans Van Beuningen Museum
  • Woman with fruits
  • The Bean King Festival, 1650/55, Gemäldegalerie Berlin
  • A cook in the pantry , Munich, Alte Pinakothek
  • The Rooster Seller , 1662, Dresden, Old Masters Picture Gallery
  • The venison dealer and the lace maker
  • The music lovers
  • Family of the merchant Hinlopen , 1662, Gemäldegalerie Berlin
  • Portrait of an old woman
  • The sick woman with the doctor
  • A cook
  • Portrait of a Lady , 1667, Minneapolis Institute of Arts

Exhibitions

literature

  • FW Robinson: Gabriel Metsu (1629-1667). A Study of His Place in Dutch Genre Painting of the Golden Age. Schramm, New York 1974.
  • L. Stone-Ferrier: Gabriel Metsu's Vegetable Market at Amsterdam: seventeenth century Dutch market paintings and horticulture. In: Art Bulletin. Jrg. 71 (1989), no. 3 (September)
  • A. Waiboer: The early years of Gabriel Metsu. In: The Burlington Magazine. No. 1223, Vol. CXLVII (2005), pp. 80-90.
  • Adriaan E. Waiboer (Ed.): Gabriel Metsu. Yale University Press, 2010, ISBN 978-0-300-16724-5 .
  • General German real encyclopedia for the educated classes. 10th edition. FA Brockhaus, Leipzig 1853. (Conversations Lexicon)
  • Joseph Eduard Wessely :  Metsu, Gabriel . In: Allgemeine Deutsche Biographie (ADB). Volume 21, Duncker & Humblot, Leipzig 1885, p. 519 f.

Web links

Commons : Gabriël Metsu  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Remarks

  1. ↑ possibly Lucia Wijbrants

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Die kleine Enzyklopädie , Encyclios-Verlag, Zurich, 1950, Volume 2, p. 161.
  2. ↑ Portrait of an unnamed lady ( Memento from September 30, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
  3. ^ Gabriel Metsu - Rediscovered Master of the Dutch Golden Age. ( Memento of October 5, 2010 on the Internet Archive ) in the National Gallery of Ireland
  4. ^ Gabriel Metsu: A master rediscovered. ( Memento of December 24, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) in the Rijksmuseum Amsterdam
  5. ↑ Celebration for an all-rounder. In: FAZ . February 24, 2011, p. 29.
personal data
SURNAME Metsu, Gabriel
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Dutch painter
DATE OF BIRTH January 1629
PLACE OF BIRTH Suffer
DATE OF DEATH October 24, 1667
Place of death Amsterdam