Artists

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  Woman Reading a Letter $AU 274.57 ~ 1,083.52
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  Woman Eating $AU 218.56 ~ 1,010.89
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  The Sick Child $AU 241.28 ~ 1,171.93
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  The Hunter's Gift $AU 261.38 ~ 1,088.93
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  The Old Drinker $AU 186.12 ~ 1,082.16
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  The Dead Rooster $AU 192.88 ~ 727.64

According to Arnold Houbraken (1660-1717), Gabriel Metsu (1629 Leiden-1667 Amsterdam) studied under Gerard Dou in Leiden. Metsu's early history paintings, however, reveal rather the influence of the work of the Utrecht painter Nicolaus Knupfer and his Leiden student Jan Stgeen. Metsu is documented as being one of the founding members of the guild of St. Luke in Leiden in 1648, and by the middle of the next decade he had moved to Amsterdam, where he re-enters historical records in 1657. At approximately the same time as his move to Amsterdam, Metsu turned to genre painting, producing cabinet pieces in which he patterned himself on models such as Gerard Dou, Gerard Terborch, Pieter de Hooch, and Jan Vermeer. Metsu's particular sensibility for color, combined with a qualitatively excellent detailed painting style, are the basis of the charm of his many-faceted oeuvre. Works by the artist include Woman Reading a Letter,1665, National Gallery of Ireland, Dublin; The Music Society, 1659, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; and The Sick Child, c. 1660, Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam.