Gabriel Metsu
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 Sick Child, 1660/65, Rijksmuseum Amsterdam
Poultry seller, 1662, Dresden, Old Masters Picture Gallery
The apple peeler, 1660/70, Paris, Musée du Louvre
- 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
- 2010: National Gallery of Ireland, Dublin
- 2011: Rijksmuseum Amsterdam
- 2011: National Gallery of Art , Washington, DC
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
Remarks
- ↑ possibly Lucia Wijbrants
Individual evidence
- ↑ Die kleine Enzyklopädie , Encyclios-Verlag, Zurich, 1950, Volume 2, p. 161.
- ↑ Portrait of an unnamed lady ( Memento from September 30, 2007 in the Internet Archive )
- ^ Gabriel Metsu - Rediscovered Master of the Dutch Golden Age. ( Memento of October 5, 2010 on the Internet Archive ) in the National Gallery of Ireland
- ^ Gabriel Metsu: A master rediscovered. ( Memento of December 24, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) in the Rijksmuseum Amsterdam
- ↑ Celebration for an all-rounder. In: FAZ . February 24, 2011, p. 29.
personal data | |
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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 |