Gabriel Metsu
Sign in to saveAlso known as Gabriel Metza, Gabriel Metezu, Gabriel Metzu, Gabriel Metzee, Gabriel Metzur, Gabriel Metsue, Gabriel Metse, Gabriel Mezu
Dutch painter (1629-1667)
Key facts
- Born
- 1629, Leiden , Dutch Republic
- Died
- Buried 24 October 1667 (aged 37 – 38), Amsterdam , Dutch Republic
- Known for
- Painting
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Gabriel
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Dutch Republic
- Place of birth
- Leiden
- Place of death
- Amsterdam
- Mother
- Jacquemijntje Garniers
- Occupation
- visual artist
- Languages spoken
- Dutch
- Student of
- Gerrit Dou
- Genre
- portrait
- Movement
- Baroque
- Image
- Gabriel Metsu - Self-Portrait Cropped.jpg
- Work location
- Amsterdam
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- Commons gallery
- Gabriël Metsu
- Commons category
- Gabriël Metsu
- date of death
- 1667-10-24
- Commons Creator page
- Gabriël Metsu
- date of birth
- 1629-01-01
- has works in the collection
- Het Scheepvaartmuseum
- place of burial
- Nieuwe Kerk
Sources (8)
via Wikidata · CC0
Works in European collections
34 objects attributed to Gabriel Metsu, held across European museums, libraries & archives · via Europeana
![La Riboteuse Hollandoise; [The Wine Drinker]](https://api.europeana.eu/thumbnail/v2/url.json?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fdiglib.hab.de%2Fvaria%2Fhaum%2Fdaulle-j-ab2-0046%2Fmax%2F000001.jpg&type=IMAGE)
La Riboteuse Hollandoise; [The Wine Drinker]
La Hollandoise à son Clavecin
The old vendor
The lute player
The Family of Amsterdam Mayor Dr. Gillis Valckenier (?)
The poultry vendor
Self-portrait of the artist with his wife in the tavern
Letter-reading lady and maid
The Lady with the Klöppelkissen
Breakfast
The poultry vendor
Man and woman at the spinach
Young woman in profile, sitting to the left; half figure
The Woman with the Letter
Young couple at breakfast
Young woman with beer mug
The music lover
The Dead Rooster
The Sick
The sick child
The lute player
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Encyclopedic overview
Gabriël Metsu (1629–1667) was a Dutch painter of history paintings, still lifes, portraits, and genre works. He was "a highly eclectic artist, who did not adhere to a consistent style, technique, or one type of subject for long periods". Only 14 of his 133 works are dated.
Life
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Gabriel Metsu” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.