GABRIEL METSU (LEIDEN 1629-1667 AMSTERDAM) - photo 1
GABRIEL METSU (LEIDEN 1629-1667 AMSTERDAM) - photo 2
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GABRIEL METSU (LEIDEN 1629-1667 AMSTERDAM)

Lot 13
03.12.2024 13:00UTC +00:00
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ID 1344011
Lot 13 | GABRIEL METSU (LEIDEN 1629-1667 AMSTERDAM)
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£ 200 000 – 300 000
GABRIEL METSU
(LEIDEN 1629-1667 AMSTERDAM)
A smoker lighting his pipe
signed 'G: Metsü.' (on the table edge, lower right)
oil on panel
9 1/8 x 8 3/8 in. (23.2 x 21.2 cm.)




Provenance

Anonymous sale [Lenglier]; his sale, Lebrun a.o., Paris, 24-27 April 1786, lot 80 (FF 1,100).
Anonymous sale; Saubert, Paris, 25 March 1793, lot 55, as 'L'intérieur d'un appartement où l'on voit un homme vêtu d'un habit brun et linge blanc rabattu sur le col, la tête couverte d'un chapeau. Il est assis devant une table et allumant sa pipe; à côté est un réchaux, un verre, un bocal et un linge. Ce tableau, qui est d'une touche legère et savante, est du beau faire de ce maître. Haut. 9 pouces, larg. 8 pouces et demi'.
Féréol Bonnemaison (1766-1827), Paris; his sale, Lebrun a.o., Paris, 15-17 July 1802, lot 92 (FF 500 to Bouteville).
(Possibly) J.S. Lazarus, Elisabeth’s Cottage, George Green, Langley Park, Buckinghamshire (according to Waiboer, op. cit.).
with John Mitchell, London, by 1957, from whom acquired by the following,
Private collection, and by descent; [The Property of a Private Collector]; Christie’s, London, 3 July 2012, lot 13, where acquired by the present owner.



Literature

J. Smith, A Catalogue Raisonné of the Works of the Most Eminent Dutch, Flemish, and French Painters, IV, London, 1833, p. 109, no. 118, as ‘A Portrait of the Artist’.
(Possibly) E.W. Moes, Iconographia Batava: Beredeneerde lijst van geschilderde en gebeeldhouwde portretten van Noord-Nederlanders in vorige eeuwen, II, Amsterdam, 1905, p. 95, no. 5005, no. 11.
C. Hofstede de Groot, A Catalogue Raisonné of the Works of the Most Eminent Dutch Painters of the Seventeenth Century, I, London, 1908, p. 325, no. 230a, as a self-portrait.
H. van Hall, Portretten van Nederlandse beeldende kunstenaars, Amsterdam, 1963, p. 207, no. 4, as a self-portrait.
S.J. Gudlaugsson, ‘Kanttekeningen bij de ontwikkeling van Metsu,’ Oud Holland, LXXXIII, 1968, pp. 19 and 25, fig. 8.
F.W. Robinson, Gabriel Metsu (1629-1667): A Study of his Place in Dutch Genre Painting of the Golden Age, New York, 1974, p. 48, fig. 112.
A.E. Waiboer, Gabriel Metsu Life and Work: A Catalogue Raisonné, New Haven and London, 2012, pp. 61 and 198, no. A-52, illustrated.
A.E. Waiboer, ‘Gone up in Smoke? Gabriel Metsu’s “Missing” Self-Portrait with a Pipe,’ E. Buijsen, C. Dumas and V. Manuth, eds., Face Book: Studies on Dutch and Flemish Portraiture of the 16th-18th Centuries, Leiden, 2012, pp. 313 and 315, fig. 5.



Exhibited

Boston, Museum of Fine Arts, February-May 2014, on loan.



Engraved

W. Pether, 1768.
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