Gabriel Metsu (1629-1667), After - Il Cacciatore e la Dama

Gabriel Metsu (Leiden, 1629 – Amsterdam, 1667) – “The Hunter and the Lady” – nineteenth-century reproduction in the style of the Dutch Golden Age

Oil on canvas
Italy, first half of the 19th century
Contemporary gilded wooden frame with an engraved plaque
Refined nineteenth-century reproduction of the famous painting “The Hunter and the Lady” by Gabriel Metsu, one of the masters of the Dutch Golden Age, today preserved at the Uffizi Gallery in Florence.
The work, executed in oil on canvas, shows a notable quality of painting: the rendering of the fabrics, the delicacy of the faces, and the measured handling of light faithfully evoke the elegance and inwardness typical of the seventeenth-century Dutch school.

The original gilded wood frame, finely molded, features at the bottom a metal plaque with the title of the work and the author’s name. On the back of the canvas, a handwritten chalk inscription in Italian italics reports the title and Metsu’s birth and death dates, adding to the work’s historical charm.
A work of great taste and decorative character, typical of Italian academic production of the nineteenth century, carried out with philological respect toward the masters of the Dutch Baroque.