Lot Essay
Described by Franklin W. Robinson in his entry in the Cornell exhibition catalogue as the 'only drawing that I know is convincing as Metsu'.
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A servant woman holding a glass
Details
Gabriël Metsu (Leiden 1629-1667 Amsterdam)
A servant woman holding a glass
with inscription 'G. Metzu'
black and white chalk on light brown paper, the corners cut
425 x 246 mm.
A servant woman holding a glass
with inscription 'G. Metzu'
black and white chalk on light brown paper, the corners cut
425 x 246 mm.
Provenance
P. Suther, Stockholm, probably his sale, 7 March 1804.
Sir Fairfax Cartwright, Aynhoe, Christie's, London, 25 June 1968, lot 63.
Emile Wolf, New York.
Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, Amsterdam, 15 November 1995, lot 8 (to Dreesmann).
Dr Anton C.R. Dreesmann (inventory no. B-150).
Sir Fairfax Cartwright, Aynhoe, Christie's, London, 25 June 1968, lot 63.
Emile Wolf, New York.
Anonymous sale; Sotheby's, Amsterdam, 15 November 1995, lot 8 (to Dreesmann).
Dr Anton C.R. Dreesmann (inventory no. B-150).
Literature
B. Broos & M. Schapelhouman, Oude Tekeningen in het bezit van het Amsterdams Historisch Museum... Nederlandse Tekenaars geboren tussen 1600 en 1660, Amsterdam, 1993, pp. 114-115, under no. 83, illustrated fig. a.
Exhibited
Ithaca, New York, Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, Dutch Drawings of the Seventeenth Century from a collection, 1979, no. 45.
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