Gabriel Metsu (1629-1667). A Study of his place in Dutch genre painting of the Golden Age by Robinson, Franklin W - 1974

A. Schram, 1975-06. Hardcover. Good.

New York: Abner Schram, 1974. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. green cloth. Fine in slightly nicked near fine dust wrapper. Gabriel Metsu. 240 pages. 28 x 21.5 cm. 240 black and white illustrations, frontispiece in color. One of the major figures of the Golden Age of Dutch genre scenes and religious subjects.

New York: Schram, 1974. Original cloth. Illustrated with 240 black and white plates. (Ex library copy with the usual markings, labels and stamps. Dustj. missing, All in all in a very good condition). Gabriel Metsu's numerous works--there are more than one hundred and fifty extant paintings--have an unusual charm and immediacy, ranging over a wide variety of subjects: not only genre scenes, illustrating tavern and peasant life as well as more familiar bourgeois views of the boudoir and living room, but also religious scenes, still-lifes, and, occasionally, portraits. These paintings are characterized by a direct, sometimes almost naive delight in a world of bedrooms and taverns and nurseries; his love of depicting everyday people in everyday roles, housewives and hunters, drinkers, smokers, and prostitutes, is equalled by a sheer delight in color--particularly the juxtaposition of red and green--and the qualities of paint itself, with sparkling highlights touched on the surface of an object or,… Read More

Abner Schram, NY, c.1974, 8-1/2"x11-1/4", cloth, 240pp., illusts., ex-lib.- spine label, pocket, stamps, badly scuffed bottom edge, ow G $