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Gabriel Metsu

male / North Netherlandish (school)

painter

Name variations

This field records and makes accessible name variations, as found in sources. Alternate spellings, nicknames, maiden names - with or without the married name - are included in this category.

: Metsue, Gabriël
Metzu, Gabriël
Metzue, Gabriël

Qualifications: painter

Nationality/school: North Netherlandish (school)

Born: Leiden (city) 1629-01
born in January of 1629. Houbraken wrongly assumed that he was born in 1615 (Houbraken 1721, p. 40).

Deceased: Amsterdam (city) 1667-10/1667-10-24
buried in the Nieuwe Kerk on October 24, 1667 (Obreen vol. 5 (1882-1883), p. 14)

Family relationships this field records any family relationship to one or more other artist(s).: Son of Jacques Metsu (c. 1587/89-1629), painter born the Bailleul (Belle) in the former county Flanders. Married to Isabella de Wolff (her mother was Maria de Grebber) (De Vries 1885). His mother, Jacquemijntje Metsu-Garniers, was also a painter (E. Kloek, C. Peters Senger, E. Tobé, 'Lexicon van Noord-Nederlandse kunstenaressen, circa 1550-1800', in: idem, Vrouwen en kunst in de Republiek, een overzicht, Hilversum 1998, p. 152-153).

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247 hits in RKDimages as artist
24 hits in RKDlibrary as subject
2207 hits in RKDexcerpts as artist
11 hits in RKDtechnical as artist

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Leiden (stad) 1644 - 1655
became a member of the Saint Lucas guild in 1648; lived and worked in Leiden until c. 1655
Amsterdam (stad) 1657 - 1667
c. 1657 -1677 living in the Leydsche Straet (Obreen 1882-1883). According to Houbraken he had a bladder stone cut out in 1658 when 43 years old (Houbraken 1721, p. 42).

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Connections with other artists

Teacher of This field mentions the names of pupils. What is at issue are the pupils who were significantly influenced by a teacher as opposed to every student someone ever had. See also the 'Education' field.: Geel, Joost van
Musscher, Michiel van
Followed by This field mentions the artist’s emulators. Although students can naturally also be followers, they are not mentioned again here. What is meant by followers are those who continue to work in the spirit of a predecessor. Sometimes this may happen a century later; there is no time limit. What is at issue, however, is that someone’s oeuvre must substantially follow in the manner of the artist emulated.: Schlichten, Johann Franz von der
Stadler, Wilhelmine
Influence on This field specifies the artists influenced by the artist in question, without there being question of an educational setting or servile following.: Beale, Charles (II)
Danhauser, Joseph
Dijck, Abraham van
Drölling, Martin
Mallet, Jean Baptiste
Meissonier, Ernest
Edmonds, Francis William

Subjects This field specifies the various subject categories or genres that constitute the oeuvre of the artist in question. The contents of this field are generally based more on the documentation available at the RKD than on the literature.: genre, history (genre), Christian religious scene, portrait, still life, game piece (still life), fruit piece

Medium/technique: oil paint

Member of

Sint-Lucasgilde (Leiden)

Literature

Literature in RKDLibrary: 24 hits in RKDlibrary as subject

Houbraken 1718-1721 , vol. 1 (1718), p. 370; vol. 2 (1719), p. 131; vol. 3 (1721), p. 32, 40-42, 51, 211 (as: Gabr. Metzu, Gabriel Metzu)
Van der Aa 1852-1878 , vol. 12, 2 (1869), p. 727-729 (as: Gabriel Metzu)
Obreen 1877-1890 , vol. 5 (1882-1883), p. 14
Hofstede de Groot 1907-1928 (German edition) , vol. 1 (1907)
Thieme/Becker 1907-1950 , vol. 24 (1930), p. 439-441 (as: Metsu, Gabriel)
Gerson 1942/1983 , p. 25, 26, 69, 70, 102-104, 123, 182, 239, 250, 412, 507
Hollstein et al. 1949-2010 , vol. 14 (1956), p. 15-17 (as: Gabriel Metsu)
Witt Checklist 1978 , p. 207 (as: Metsu, Metsue, Metzu or Metzue, Gabriel)
Sutton 1984 , p. 70
Briels 1997 , p. 359
Saur 1999-2000 , vol. 6, p. 755 (as: Metsu, Gabriel)
Van der Willigen/Meijer 2003 , p. 142 (as: Gabriel Metsu)
Aono 2011 , passim
Aono 2015 , passim
Horn/Van Leeuwen 2021 [Houbraken Translated]

A.D. de Vries, 'Het testament en sterfjaar van Gabriel Metsu', Oud-Holland 1 (1883), p. 78-80
A.D. de Vries Azn., 'Biografische aanteekeningen betreffende voornamelijk Amsterdamsche schilders, plaatsnijders, enz. en hunne verwanten' (III), Oud-Holland 3 (1885), p. 223-240; p. 229-230
B.J.A. Renckens en J. Duyvetter, 'De vrouw van Gabriel Metsu, Isabella de Wolff, geboortig van Enkhuizen', Oud-Holland 74 (1959), p. 179-182
J.Q. van Regteren Altena, 'Gabriel Metsu as a draughtsman', Master Drawings 1 (1963), no. 2, p. 13-20
S.J. Gudlaugsson, 'Kanttekeningen bij de ontwikkeling van Metsu', Oud Holland 83 (1968), p. 13-43
U.M. Schneede, 'Gabriël Metsu und der holländische Realismus', Oud Holland 83 (1968), p. 44-61
I.H. van Eeghen, 'De familiestukken van Metsu van 1657 en van De Wittevan 1678 met vier levensgeschiedenissen (Gillis Valckenier, Nicolaas Listingh, Jan Zeeuw en Catharina van de Perre)', Jaarboek Amstelodamum 68 (1976), p. 78-107
E. Haverkamp-Begemann, 'A 'Resurrection of Christ' by Gabriel Metsu', Nederlands Kunsthistorisch Jaarboek 38 (1987), p. 93-96
A. Waiboer, 'The early years of Gabriel Metsu', Burlington Magazine (2005), p. 80-90
V. Hedquist, 'Dutch genre painting as religious art: Gabriel Metsu's Roman Catholic imagery', Art History 31 (2008), p. 159-186
A. Waiboer, 'Gone up in Smoke?: Gabriel Metsu's 'Missing' Self-Portrait with a Pipe', in: E. Buijsen, Ch. Dumas, V. Manuth (eds), Face Book. Studies on Dutch and Flemish Portraiture of the 16th-18th Centuries. Liber Amicorum presented to Rudolf E.O. Ekkart on the occasion of his 65th Birthday, Leiden 2012, p. 311-318
P. Roelofs, 'Gabriël Metsu – Portrettist', ibidem, p. 335-344
P. Roelofs, review of Waiboer 2012, Simious 38 (2015-2016), p. 87-92
J. Aono, review of Waiboer 2012, Oud Holland 129 (2016), p. 37-43

Documentation RKD

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Archive location: archief Le Roy

External links: this artist in Ecartico
Dissertation by A.E. Waiboer (2007) in Google Books

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Creation date: 1992-02-01; Last modified date: 2023-02-09

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