Gabriel Metsu

baroque

Gabriel Metsu Paintings 1629 - 1669 Painter, Baroque

Man Writing a Letter, 1662-1665

Oil on canvas

National Gallery of Ireland, Dublin

Figurative Art

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OIL PAINTING: Man Writing a Letter, 1662-1665
The Man Writing a Letter offers a view of the love of comfort and beautiful materials in the home of a well-to-do burgher about 1660, and the heavily carved gilt Baroque frame around the landscape painting on the wall behind the handsome young man makes clear that not all seventeenth-century Dutch paintings were enclosed in rectilinear black ebony mouldings.