1600s Music Indoors + Eating, Courting, Drinking & Dogs by Dutch artist Gabriel Metsu 1629-1667

Gabriel Metsu (Dutch Baroque Era Painter, 1629-1667) Young Woman Composing Music with attending dog...

Gabriel Metsu (Dutch Baroque Era Painter, 1629-1667) The Cittern Player with attending dog...

Gabriel Metsu (Dutch Baroque Era Painter, 1629-1667) A Musical Party


Gabriel Metsu (Dutch Baroque Era Painter, 1629-1667) Virginal


Gabriel Metsu (Dutch Baroque Era Painter, 1629-1667) A Woman Seated at a Table with Cello & Man Tuning a Violin (with dog) c 1665 with attending dog...


Gabriel Metsu (Dutch Baroque Era painter, 1629-1667) Music Lesson

Gabriel Metsu (Dutch Baroque Era Painter, 1629-1667) Breakfast 1660 with attending dog...

Gabriel Metsu (Dutch Baroque Era Painter, 1629-1667) Lady Seated in a Window

Gabriel Metsu (Dutch Baroque Era Painter, 1629-1667) Portrait of the Artist with His Wife Isabella de Wolff in a Tavern

Gabriel Metsu (Dutch Baroque Era Painter, 1629-1667) Soldier Paying a Visit to a Young Lady with attending dog...

Gabriel Metsu (Dutch Baroque Era Painter, 1629-1667) Tavern Scene

Gabriel Metsu (Dutch Baroque Era Painter, 1629-1667) The Feast of the Bean King (a Twelfth Night tradition)

Gabriel Metsu (Dutch Baroque Era Painter, 1629-1667) The Hunter and a Woman with attending dog...

Gabriel Metsu (Dutch Baroque Era Painter, 1629-1667) The Hunter's Gift with attending dog...

Gabriel Metsu (Dutch Baroque Era Painter, 1629-1667) The Prodigal Son

Gabriel Metsu (Dutch Baroque Era Painter, 1629-1667) The Sick Child

Gabriel Metsu (Dutch Baroque Era Painter, 1629-1667) The Sick Girl

Gabriel Metsu (Dutch Baroque Era Painter, 1629-1667) The Sleeping Sportsman with attending dog...

Gabriel Metsu (Dutch Baroque Era Painter, 1629-1667) The Tippler (The Wine Drinker)

Gabriel Metsu (Dutch Baroque Era Painter, 1629-1667) The Visit to the Nursery with attending dog...

Gabriel Metsu (Dutch Baroque Era Painter, 1629-1667) Visit of the Physician with attending dog...

Gabriël Metsu (1629-1667) was trained as a painter in his native Leiden but spent the last part of his career in Amsterdam. Most of his output consists of genre paintings which reproduce in a direct & simple way the life of the Dutch middle classes in the 17C.

Gabriel Metsu (Dutch Baroque Era Painter, 1629-1667) Self Portrait

Note: Because Metsu included details of rooms and landscapes in his paintings, most of these works are details.