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A. Schram, January 1974. Hardcover. VG-/Fair. used hardcover in dust jacket. jacket is somewhat worn about the edges, with a number of small chips and tears at the extremeties, though still largely intact. pages and binding are clean, straight and tight. there are no marks to the text or other serious flaws.

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

NY: Abner Schram, 1974. cloth, hard cover in dust jacket., very small owner label to front pastedown and an even smaller bookseller's label to rear pastedown. truly minor corner-wear to dust jacket, negligible. no other flaws or wear. clean, no markings or writing. strong binding. no bumps or chips.; english text., 240pp., 246 b/w plates and a color frontispiece. detailed art history.. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine Plus/Near Fine Plus. 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall.

New York: Abner Schram, 1974. 1st. Hardcover. Very Good. 11.3x8.8x1.1in. split in cloth in rear gutter, ownership cipher and number on front pastedown, lacking dust jacket. 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 equaled 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, sometimes, short hooks… Read More