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Learn about the life and works of Gabriel Metsu, a Leiden-born artist who painted domestic interiors, portraits and still lifes in a realistic style. Discover his influences, such as Dou, Vermeer and Knüpfer, and his only known pupil, van Musscher.

Gabriel Metsu specialised in genre paintings although his earliest works include historical and allegorical subjects and portraits...

Gabriël Metsu. From the series Dutch Masters. Metsu's paintings have always been popular. The sympathetic characters in his colourful scenes immediately appeal to us. { { 1 | leadingZero }} The Sick Child. Gabriel Metsu's best-known painting is the Rijksmuseum's The Sick Child, which features a listless child slumped in its mother's lap.

Learn about the life and work of Gabriel Metsu, a seventeenth-century artist who painted realistic and engaging scenes of domestic and upper-class life. Explore his biography, works of art, and related content on the National Gallery of Art website.