FJK 085

Metsu Gabriel (Dutch, Leiden 1629–1667 Amsterdam)

Maid Holding a Glass with Her Right Hand

Date unknown
16 27/32 × 9 23/32 in. (428 × 247 mm)

Medium
Charcoal heightened with white chalk on brown paper with angles cut

Inscription in charcoal bottom left: G. Metzu

Origin

P. Suther Collection, Stockholm
His sale, March 7, 1804 (probably)
Sir Fairfax Cartwright Collection, Aynhoe
Sale, Christie’s, London, June 25, 1968, no. 63
Emile Wolf Collection, New York
Anonymous sale, Sotheby’s, Amsterdam, November 15, 1995, no. 8
Dr. Anton C. R. Dreesmann Collection, Amsterdam (Acc. no. B-150)
His sale, Christie’s, London, April 11, 2002, no. 686
Jan Krugier Collection, Monaco, JK 6035
Jan Krugier Foundation

Bibliography

BROOS B., SCHAPELHOUMAN M., Oude Tekeningen in Het bezit van het Amsterdams Historisch Museum... Nederlandse Tekenaars geboren tussen 1600 en 1660, Amsterdam, 1993, pp. 114-115, mentioned under no. 83, fig. a.

Exhibitions

Ithaca, New York, Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, Dutch Drawings of the Seventeenth Century from a Collection, catalogue by Franklin W. Robinson, 1979, no. 45: “only drawing that I know convincing as Metsu.”