Attributed to Gabriel Metsu
Woman Sewing by a Window

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Attribution Attributed to Gabriel Metsu (Dutch, 1629–1667)Dutch, 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, April 27, 1713, lot 8, as by Metsu]; Anthony Deutz, The Netherlands, by whom offered; [Amsterdam, March 7, 1731, lot 2, as by Metsu]; Gerard Bicker van Zwieten, Amsterdam, by whom offered; [The Hague, April 12, 1741, lot 144, bought in]; and [The Hague, April 4, 1755, lot 45, as by Metsu]; [Jan Pieter Fouquet, Amsterdam, 1781]; De Calonne collection, by whom offered; [Le Brun, Paris, April 21, 1788, lot 88, as by Metsu]; Bernardus de Bosch, The Netherlands, by whom offered; [Amsterdam, March 10, 1817, lot 17]; [Honorable Irving M. Scott sale, American Art Galleries, New York, February 9, 1906, lot 21, as by Vermeer, bought in]; thence by descent within the family, by whom offered; [Sotheby’s, New York, June 17, 1982, lot 77, as by Metsu]; [Butterfield & Butterfield, San Francisco, June 27, 1996, Property of a Gentleman, Saratoga, California, lot 4012, as by the circle of Metsu]; [Sotheby’s, New York, January 30, 1997, lot 87, as by Gabriel Metsu]; Lord Magan, Castletown Cox House, Co. Kilkenny, Ireland, until 2018; [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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