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  Worldvisitguide > Places > National Gallery > Flemish and Northern Painting > Vermeer and the Delft... > Woman seated at a Table...
Woman seated at a Table and a Man tuning a Violin
Artist : Gabriel Metsu

Date : near 1658

Dimensions : 37 cm x 43 cm
Material : Oil on canvas
Acquisition : Bought with the Peel collection (1871)
National Gallery
Vermeer and the Delft Painters
Main Building - First Floor - Section 16
Item 11 on 16
Flemish and Northern Painting
Painting (Scène intérieure)

Area related
Neitherlands


Description   

The woman at the table is holding a sheet of music. Her companion is tuning his violin. On the table is a viola da gamba. Such scenes of men and women making music are often interpreted as metaphors for the harmony of love. Metsu, a native of Leiden, is said to have been trained by Gerrit Dou, whose works hang in room 17.
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Dimensions : 28 cm x 26 cm
approx. from 1650 to 1667
La Riboteuse
Portrait
Gabriel Metsu
Dimensions : 28 cm x 27 cm
approx. from 1650 to 1667

National Gallery :
Vermeer and the Delft Painters
A Man and a Woman seated by a Virginal
Scène intérieure
Gabriel Metsu
Dimensions : 38 cm x 32 cm
near 1660
Two Men with a Sleeping Woman
Scène intérieure
Gabriel Metsu
Dimensions : 37 cm x 32 cm
approx. from 1655 to 1660

 
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