A Young Woman composing Music, observed by a Man, another Woman playing the Lute (after Metsu)
after Gabriel Metsu (Leyden 1629 – Amsterdam 1667)
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
1700 - 1799
Materials
Oil on canvas
Measurements
570 x 458 mm
Place of origin
Holland
Order this imageCollection
Vyne Estate, Hampshire
NT 719419
Summary
Oil painting on canvas, A Young Woman composing Music, observed by a Man, another Woman playing the Lute, after Gabriel Metsu (Leyden 1629 – Amsterdam 1669), signed, with bogus initials, bottom left: G.T. [Gerard Terborch],18th century. The interior of an apartment, with a lady seated at a table writing a letter, whilst a youth leans upon the back of her chair and a girl plays the mandolin; a dog in the foreground. This is an eighteenth-century copy of Metsu's signed painting of around 1662/3, from Willem V's collection (1768-1795) in the Mauritshuis, The Hague (94). A copy was recorded at Abbeville in the 18th century which could be this picture.
Provenance
1880s Notes, in the Chapel Parlour: "Lady playing guitar and tablecloth (Terburg)"; bequeathed with The Vyne, estate and contents by Sir Charles Chute, 1st Bt (1879-1956)
Credit line
The Vyne, The Chute Collection (National Trust)
Makers and roles
after Gabriel Metsu (Leyden 1629 – Amsterdam 1667), artist previously catalogued as attributed to Gerard ter Borch the Younger (Zwolle 1617 - Deventer 1681), artist
References
Robinson 1974 Franklin M. Robinson, Gabriel Metsu (1629 - 1667) A Study of his Place in Dutch Genre Painting in the Golden Age, New York, 1974, pp.39 & 200 Gabriel Metsu, Stedelijk Museum De Lakenhal, Leiden, 22 June 1966–5 September 1966, no. 41