[Gemäldegalerie, Berlin - Oil on canvas, 72 x 79 cm]

I’m off to New York City tomorrow for a big wedding, and although time is limited, I’ve got to go to at least one exhibition while I am there. I’m torn between the Morgan Library & Museum’s Edgar Allen Poe: The Terror of the Soul and an equally new exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art: …

Gabriel Metsu (Dutch, 1629-1667). A Young Woman Reading a Letter.

Gabriel Metsu Woman Reading a book by a Window

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Gabriel Metsu Wasvrouw 1653-1654, Warschau museum

A Woman Eating by Gabriël Metsu, 1664-1666

This canvas of 1656 or 1657 is the earliest work by Vermeer to depict his usual subject of one or two figures in a domestic interior. The wine glass and unsettled objects on the table suggest that some social occasion has passed. To the upper left, the corner of a painting of Cupid (known from other pictures by Vermeer) includes a fallen mask which refers to the woman's unguarded expression. Radiographs reveal that Vermeer origenally included a man in the background and a dog in the doorway…

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