Gabriel Metsu (1629 - 1667)

Gabriel Metsu

Gabriel Metsu was a Netherlandish painter of the Golden Age of Dutch painting, who painted mainly scenes of everyday life.

Metsu became one of the first members of the St. Luke's Artists' Guild in Leiden in 1648. He painted markets and outdoor interiors or genre scenes. He also produced many paintings of young women engaged in domestic tasks, often using his wife as a model, as in his painting St. Cecilia (1663).

In addition to genre, Gabriel Metsu was also engaged in portrait and historical painting, painted still lifes.