Gabriel Metsu Rediscovered Master of the Dutch Golden Age 20100504 Gabriel; Waiboer Adriaan eds Metsu 9781904288411 Books
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Gabriel Metsu's exceptional mastery of the brush allowed him to paint a remarkable range of history paintings, portraits, still lifes, but above all, exquisite genre paintings. GABRIEL METSU, REDISCOVERED MASTER OF THE DUTCH GOLDEN AGE was published on the occasion of an exhibit of Metsu's work at The National Gallery of Ireland, Dublin; The Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam and The National Gallery of Art, Washington in 2010 -2011 212 pages 160 beautiful color illustrations.
Gabriel Metsu Rediscovered Master of the Dutch Golden Age 20100504 Gabriel; Waiboer Adriaan eds Metsu 9781904288411 Books
The quality of reproductions in this volume leaves much to be desired. The colors are on a darker, almost muddy side, which makes some images, portraits especially, look unnatural and downright strange: "A Woman Writing a Letter", c. 1662-4 is a telling example. The not-so-high quality of reproductions becomes obvious when one lays this book next to another volume on Metsu: "Gabriel Metsu: Life and Work: A Catalogue Raisonne."Product details
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Gabriel Metsu Rediscovered Master of the Dutch Golden Age 20100504 Gabriel; Waiboer Adriaan eds Metsu 9781904288411 Books Reviews
The fact that the reputation of Gabriel Metsu has plummeted in the 20th century is a validation of modern aesthetic discrimination and connoisseurship.
"A Man Writing a Letter", the picture on the cover, is arguably the most attractive painting in the book as it's restrained palette and composition, and the highlights on the subject's face bring it closer in spirit to Vermeer's style. Whereas Vermeer's works manage to achieve a rare level of balance both in color and composition through some indefinable artistic alchemy such that even his paintings displaying a range of relatively bright colors (such as "The Love Letter") manage to maintain an effortless rhythm and harmony, Metsu's use of color and the play of light on his figures render his works largely decorative in appearance, while there is often no particular focus in his paintings, so that the eye wonders over an image that never achieves the conviction and quiet repose of the Vermeers.
If this analysis sounds harsh, I should add in mitigation that Metsu's works are extremely competent and decorative, and apart from a few errors of perspective such as the bizarrely distorted cello in "Saint Cecilia" on page 20 as well as the poor rendition of the right side of her face and her right shoulder, his paintings are generally inoffensive. If one is looking for small pleasures in the examination of contemporary costume and surroundings, there is some entertainment to be had from his works. However, one would have to look elsewhere for art that transcends the prettiness of the journeyman's solid renditions. (Metsu's depictions of village life - as opposed to the genre scenes of the wealthy - are particularly uninspiring, although he seems to have a knack for painting chickens as against his particularly incompetent representations of cats!)
Then we come to the production values of the book and this is where it really fails. The reproductions are very dark and not terribly well focused. This is particularly evident when one compares identical paintings from this book and those reproduced in the much superior tome on Vermeer by Albert Blankert, John Michael Montias and Gilles Aillaud (Overlook Duckworth 2007). "The Love Letter" is reproduced in page 42 of Metsu, and page 143 of Vermeer. In the former, the reproduction is so dark that the word Meer on the wall to the right of the maid is almost completely invisible, and the woman's skirt looks brown rather than yellow. A similar comment is to be made regarding "A Woman Writing" on page 40 of Metsu, and page 144 of Vermeer. In the former, the brilliant yellow of the coat is all but gone, and the morning light has turned into dusk. Even more sad is the fact that "Lady reading a letter with her maidservant" by Metsu can also be seen on page 142 of the Vermeer, and the picture is much prettier than the darkened version in the Metsu book which makes the light look like an overcast English day. Although the comments about Metsu's work tending to the pleasant rather than the transcendent still hold, one suspects that a book on Metsu with the production values of the tome on Vermeer would almost be worth owning, if only to delight in his rendition of fabric and costume.
All in all, if one is at all demanding, this book is not worth buying. If you want to see the works of a few contemporaries of Vermeer, the Overlook Duckworth book will provide adequate examples until such time as a high quality publication on the subject appears on the market.
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The quality of reproductions in this volume leaves much to be desired. The colors are on a darker, almost muddy side, which makes some images, portraits especially, look unnatural and downright strange "A Woman Writing a Letter", c. 1662-4 is a telling example. The not-so-high quality of reproductions becomes obvious when one lays this book next to another volume on Metsu "Gabriel Metsu Life and Work A Catalogue Raisonne."
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