#gabriel metsu

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Jannik Sinner Show and Tell (Rome 2026) / A Woman Seated at a Window by Gabriël Metsu

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Gabriël Metsu

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Image: Woman Reading a Book by a Window by Gabriel Metsu, ca. 1653-1654, Oil on canvas, The Leiden Collection

Where My Books Go

By William Butler Yeats

All the words that I utter, And all the words that I write, Must spread out their wings untiring, And never rest in their flight, Till they come where your sad, sad heart is, And sing to you in the night, Beyond where the waters are moving, Storm-darken’d or starry bright.

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Woman Reading a Book by a Window

Artist: Gabriel Metsu (Dutch, 1629-1667)

Date: ca. 1653-1654

Medium: Oil on canvas

Collection: The Leiden Collection, New York City, NY, United States

In this painting, Metsu has depicted a life-sized woman seated next to an open window. Leaning on a small table covered with a striped carpet, she stares out into the world as though contemplating an idea she has just taken from the text of the open book before her. Her distinctive wardrobe - a voluminous rusty-red cloak, loose-fitting white shirt, and black feathered beret - would have indicated to a seventeenth-century viewer that she was not a contemporary Dutch sitter, but a figure drawn from a different time and place.

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Gabriël Metsu [1629–1667], 'Man Writing a Letter' (c. 1664-1666), National Gallery of Ireland, Dublin.

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seated cavalier with glass, gabriël metsu (dutch, 1629–1667) (met)

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A gentleman writing a letter at a draped table in an interior, After Gabriel Metsu, 18th Century

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Gabriel Metsu (Dutch, 1629-1667) Crucifixion, Detail, ca.1660-65 Capitoline Museums "For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life" (John 3:16). - The Bible.