Gabriel Metsu: Life and Work Catalogue Raisonne Adriaan E. Waiboer

Despite his untimely death in 1667 at the age of thirty-seven, Gabriel Metsu left a substantial oeuvre of history paintings, portraits, still lifes, and a large number of exquisite genre scenes. These charming depictions of kitchen maids, elegant young ladies, hunters, drinkers, and amorous couples have gained Metsu a place among the most celebrated painters of seventeenth-century Holland. But his personal life has remained enigmatic. This absorbing book presents the information for Metsu's life and his network of connections, and details the complete range of his work. It will become the standard work on the artist.

Adriaan E. Waiboer is Curator of Northern European Art at the National Gallery of Ireland, Dublin, where he curated the Gabriel Metsu exhibition in 2010.

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