Tuesday, February 24, 2015

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...

Gabriƫl 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.


Sunday, February 22, 2015

1600s Music + a passel of elelgant females attributed to Caspar Netscher c 1635-1684



Caspar Netscher (Dutch Baroque Era Painter, c 1635-1684)  A Musical Conversation




Caspar Netscher (Dutch Baroque Era Painter, c 1635-1684) Lady Playing a Guitar 1669



Caspar Netscher (Dutch Baroque Era Painter, c 1635-1684) Maria Timmers


Caspar Netscher (Dutch Baroque Era Painter, c 1635-1684



Caspar Netscher (Dutch Baroque Era Painter, c 1635-1684) Margaretha Godin 1694


Caspar Netscher (Dutch Baroque Era Painter, c 1635-1684) Young Woman


Caspar Netscher (Dutch Baroque Era Painter, c 1635-1684) Venus with Cupid


Caspar Netscher (Dutch Baroque Era Painter, c 1635-1684) van de familie van Citters



Caspar Netscher (Dutch Baroque Era Painter, c 1635-1684) Suzanna Huygens 1669



Caspar Netscher (Dutch Baroque Era Painter, c 1635-1684) Sara Nuyts Wife



Caspar Netscher (Dutch Baroque Era Painter, c 1635-1684) Portret van een vrouw



Caspar Netscher (Dutch Baroque Era Painter, c 1635-1684) Mother Combing Child's Hair 1669


Caspar Netscher (Dutch Baroque Era Painter, c 1635-1684) Portrait of a Lady


Caspar Netscher (Dutch Baroque Era Painter, c 1635-1684) Montespan in Gold Dress


Caspar Netscher (Dutch Baroque Era Painter, c 1635-1684)


Caspar Netscher (Dutch Baroque Era Painter, c 1635-1684) Maria Anna


Caspar Netscher (Dutch Baroque Era Painter, c 1635-1684) Lady Philippina Staunton 1668


Caspar Netscher (Dutch Baroque Era Painter, c 1635-1684) Lady 1683



Caspar Netscher (Dutch Baroque Era Painter, c 1635-1684) Helena Catharina de Witte (1661-95)



Caspar Netscher (Dutch Baroque Era Painter, c 1635-1684) Josina Parduyn (1642-1718)



Caspar Netscher (Dutch Baroque Era Painter, c 1635-1684) Elisabeth van Bebber 1643-1704 c 1670


Caspar Netscher (Dutch Baroque Era Painter, c 1635-1684) Dorothy, Lady Temple 1671



Caspar Netscher (Dutch Baroque Era Painter, c 1635-1684) Albertina Agnes 1675


Caspar Netscher (Dutch Baroque Era Painter, c 1635-1684) Catherina Raye (1641-1712)



Caspar Netscher (Dutch Baroque Era Painter, c 1635-1684) 1669 Barbara Villers



Caspar Netscher (Dutch Baroque Era Painter, c 1635-1684) Girl Arranging Flowers


Wednesday, February 18, 2015

19C & Early 20C A few European Women making music...


Pierre Auguste Renoir (French artist, 1841-1919) Woman Playing the Guitar


Pierre Auguste Renoir (French artist, 1841-1919) Young Woman at the Piano 1876



Berthe Morisot (French Impressionist Painter, 1841-1895) Studying the Violin



Gustave Caillebotte (French Impressionist Painter, 1848-1894) The Piano Lesson 1881



Pierre Auguste Renoir (French Impressionist painter, 1841-1919) Woman with Guitar



Pierre-Auguste Renoir (French Impressionist Painter, 1841-1919) The Piano Lesson 1889



William John Hennessy (Irish artist, 1839–1917) An Old Song



Hans Borchardt (German artist, 1865—1917) The Little Pianist 1897