A woman sitting at her dressing table; a hunter with a gun stands to the left, a maidservant to the right. Engraving by F.R. Ingouf, 1771, after G. Metsu.

  • Metsu, Gabriel, 1629-1667.
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1771
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33585i
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view A woman sitting at her dressing table; a hunter with a gun stands to the left, a maidservant to the right. Engraving by F.R. Ingouf, 1771, after G. Metsu.

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A woman sitting at her dressing table; a hunter with a gun stands to the left, a maidservant to the right. Engraving by F.R. Ingouf, 1771, after G. Metsu. Wellcome Collection. Public Domain Mark. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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"La visite du chasseur. Le fusil sur l'épaule, il vient d'entrer par la porte du fond à g. et surprend une jeune dame, assise de face, qui fait un signe à un petit chien ; derrière la table où elle est accoudée à dr., se tient une servante, qui met un doigt sur ses lèvres."--Bruand, Hébert, and Sjöberg, loc. cit.

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1771

Physical description

1 print : engraving ; image 21.6 x 16.7 cm

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Du cabinet de Mr. le Duc de Choiseul ; de la grandeur de 2 pieds sur 18 pouces ; Gab. Metzu pinx ; Ingouf junior sc. Bears number: "91"

Edition

[State with etching, engraving, and letters].

References note

Yves Bruand, Michèle Hébert, and Yves Sjöberg, Inventaire du fonds français, graveurs du XVIIIe siècle, Bibliothèque nationale, Département des estampes, tome XI, Paris 1970, p. 565, no. 33

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Wellcome Collection 33585i

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