Attributed to Gabriel Metsu
Woman Sewing by a Window

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Attribution Attributed to Gabriel MetsuDutch, 1629–1667

CultureDutch

Titles

Woman Sewing by a Window

Datec. 1665

MediumOil on panel

DimensionsPanel: 8 9/16 × 7 1/16 in. (21.7 × 17.9 cm)
Frame (inner): 8 3/8 × 6 13/16 in. (21.3 × 17.3 cm)
Frame (outer): 13 3/4 × 12 5/16 × 1 1/16 in. (35 × 31.2 × 2.7 cm)

Credit LineSarah Campbell Blaffer Foundation, Houston

Object numberBF.2021.3

Current Location

The Audrey Jones Beck Building

217 Blaffer Galleries

On view

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Department

Sarah Campbell Blaffer Foundation

Object Type

PAINTING

Provenance[Rotterdam, 27 April 1713, lot 8, sold for 430 florins]; collection of Anthony Deutz, The Netherlands, by whom offered; [Amsterdam, 7 March 1731, lot 2]; collection of Bicker van Zwieten, The Netherlands, by whom offered; [The Hague, 12 April 1741, lot 144]; collection of Gerard Bicker, The Netherlands, by whom offered; [The Hague, 4 April 1755, sold for 100 florins]; [collection of Jan Pieter Fouquet, Amsterdam, 1781]; Collection of De Calonne, by whom offered; [LeBrun, Paris, 21 April 1788, sold for 860 francs]; collection of Bernardus de Bosch II, The Netherlands, by whom offered; [Amsterdam, 10 March 1807, lot 17]; [American Art Galleries, New York, 6 February 1906, lot 21, as Vermeer]; collection of Honorable Irving M. Scott, San Francisco; thence by descent in the family, by whom offered; [Sotheby’s, New York, 17 June 1982, lot 77, as Gabriel Metsu]; [Butterfield & Butterfield, San Francisco, 27 June 1996, lot 4012, as Circle of Metsu]; [Sotheby’s, New York, 30 January 1997, lot 87, as Gabriel Metsu]; Collection of Lord Magan, Castletown Cox House, Co. Kilkenny, Ireland, until 2018; [collection of Fergus Hall Master Paintings, Ltd., London]; purchased by the Sarah Campbell Blaffer Foundation, 2021.

Exhibition History"The Art and Science of Optics," The Benton Museum of Art at Pomona College, Claremont, California, November 12, 2022–March 26, 2023.
Inscriptions, Signatures and Marks

Verso: inscribed in ink, upper center: 858

Verso: Historical collection wax seal, left center
Verso: Historical diamond-shaped paper label, center: No. 59

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