# Lady Seated in a Window [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [METSU, Gabriel]() - Date: 1651-1700 - Technique: Oil on panel, 28 x 23 cm ## Commentary Lady Seated in a Window c. 1661 Oil on panel, 28 x 23 cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York This woman is encompassed by motifs connoting, like her very persona, virtue. She is about to peel an apple, an activity associated with food preparation, a quintessential task of women. Note as well the book on the ledge, a tome indicating piety, and also the grapevine and birdcage hanging in the space behind her symbolizing love and fidelity. The companion-piece of the painting \(in the Mauritshuis, The Hague\) represents a hunter surrounded by motifs apposite to the male realm. ## 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]() - [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]() - [The Apothecary \(The Chemist\)]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()