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Description: | The Barnsley painting is a late seventeenth- or early eighteenth-century replica of a painting in the Wallace Collection, London by Gabriel Metsu P251). The work is not of the same quality, indicating that the painting does not come from the artist's studio and was probably painted at a later date. Metsu was born in Leiden where he worked until he settled in Amsterdam in about 1657. He was probably a pupil of Gerrit Dou. He specialised in scenes of middle class life. The hunter was one of Metsu's favourite subjects in the late 1650s and the early 1660s. In these he juxtaposes men and women in order to show the relationship between the sexes, exploring their different concerns and the contrasts in their roles. | Subjects: | animal (dog); figure; everyday life; still life | Source: | Vads | Creator: | Artist: Metsu, Gabriel (Dutch painter, 1629-1667) Æ After Previously attributed to Metsu, Gabriel (Dutch painter, 1629-1667) | Identifier: | http://www.vads.ac.uk/large.php?uid=8863... | Go to resource |
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