# METSU, Gabriel [View the canonical artist record]() ## Artist - Lifespan: 1629–1667 - Profession: painter - School: Dutch ## Biography Dutch painter, active in his native Leiden, then in Amsterdam, where he had moved by 1657. Houbraken says he trained with Dou, but Metsu's early works are very different from his - typically historical and mythological scenes, broadly rather than minutely painted. Metsu also painted portraits and still-lifes, but his most characteristic works are genre scenes, some of which rank among the finest of their period. He concentrated on scenes of genteel middle-class life, fairly close to de Hooch and Terborch in style, but with a personal stamp. One of his best-known works, The Sick Child \(Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam\), is often compared with Vermeer. His work is rarely dated, so his development and relationships with other artists are difficult to trace. ## Related artworks - [A Musical Party]() - [A Woman Seated at a Table and a Man Tuning a Violin]() - [A Young Woman Composing Music]() - [Breakfast]() - [Dead Cock]() - [Lady Seated in a Window]() - [Man and Woman Sitting at the Virginal]() - [Man Writing a Letter]() - [Portrait of Jan Jacobsz. Hinlopen and His Family]() - [Portrait of the Artist with His Wife Isabella de Wolff in a Tavern]() - [Soldier Paying a Visit to a Young Lady]() - [Tavern Scene]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()