Despite his untimely death in 1667 at the age of thirty-seven, Gabriel Metsu left an astounding collection of history paintings, portraits, still lifes, and exquisite genre scenes. These charming depi
The genre painting of the Dutch Golden Age between 1650 and 1675 ranks among the highest pinnacles of Western European art. The virtuosity of these works, as this book demonstrates, was achieved in p
The unusual variety of styles, techniques and subjects that Gabriel Metsu (1629-1667) employed make him a particulary difficult artist to characterise. From his early days in Leiden until his death in
