Gabriël MetsuPays-Bas, 1629–1667L'apothicaire
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Musée du Louvre
Salle837, Aile Richelieu, Niveau 2Paris, France
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- Vérifié
- il y a 8 jours
- Dans cet état depuis
- 26 sept. 2026
- Source
- Les données de collection du musée lui-même
Notice
- Numéro d’inventaire
- INV 1463
Sources
- Musée du Louvre: the museum's own open data · obtenue il y a 8 jours
- Image : Musée du Louvre — © 2016 GrandPalaisRmn (musée du Louvre) / Tony Querrec
Pendant ce temps, chez Gabriël Metsu
La vie entière1657–1667 · Lieu de travail
Amsterdam
early 1660s
Turns to the Leiden “fijnschilders”
At the onset of the 1660s he turned for inspiration to the art of the Leiden “fijnschilders” (“fine painters”), whose origin is traced to Dou: their paintings on wood or copper are marked by exceptional rendering of minute detail and a smooth, glowing surface. He was apparently responding to the market for Dou’s paintings, which Dou sold at exorbitant prices.
c. 1661
Wins the patronage of the cloth merchant Jan Hinlopen
He won the patronage of the Amsterdam cloth merchant Jan J. Hinlopen, one of his most important patrons, and painted his family more than once in a fashionable setting. Such works include the “Portrait of the Hinlopen Family” (Berlin) and “Visit to the Nursery” (Metropolitan Museum).
1662
Jan Vos’s poem on “Visit to the Nursery”
Jan Vos published a poem about this painting, which belonged to Jan Hinlopen: the scene is set in an imaginary room of unrealistically large proportions, and hung in the reception room of Hinlopen’s house it alluded to his powerful role in local politics.
