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Gabriel Metsu / Adriaan Waiboer.

by Waiboer, Adriaan E.

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New Haven : Yale University Press ; [Dublin] : In association with the National Gallery of Ireland, 2010.

Metsu, Gabriel, 1629-1667 -- Exhibitions.

9780300167245 (alk. paper)

0300167245 (alk. paper)

9781904288411 (paperback; alk. paper)

1904288413 (paperback; alk. paper)

viii, 210 p. : ill. (chiefly col.) ; 30 cm.

Gabriel Metsu's life, work and reputation / Adriaan E. Waiboer -- 'Why buy a Vermeer when a Metsu is available?' The relationship between two Dutch genre painters / Adriaan E. Waiboer --Gabriel Metsu and the art of luxury / Wayne E. Franits -- Gabriel Metsu's street vendors: shopping for values in the Dutch neighbourhood / Linda Stone-Ferrier -- Early owners of paintings by Metsu in Leiden and Amsterdam / Pieter Roelofs -- Costumes in Gabriel Metsu's paintings: mode and manners in the mid-seventeenth century / Bianca M. du Mortier -- Fine painting and eloquent imprecision: Gabriel Metsu's painting technique / E. Melanie Gifford -- Gabriel Metsu's rare drawings / Marijn Schapelhouman -- Jan Vos's poem on Gabriel Metsu's Visit to the nursery.

Until he was eclipsed by the rising reputation of Vermeer in the 20th century, Gabriel Metsu was among the most celebrated painters of the Dutch Golden Age. This exhibition seeks to redress the balance & resituate Metsu as one of the leading genre painters of his time.

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