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Gabriel Metsu: Woman Peeling an Apple
Source: Wikimedia Commons (see "image archives" below)
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Gabriel Metsu Works Online
Categorized & Annotated
Paintings in Museums and Public Art Galleries Worldwide:
 Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco NEW!
Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg, Russia
Breakfast, ca.1660
The Prodigal Son, 1640s
The Doctor's Visit, 1660s
Kunsthistorisches Museum Databank, Vienna (in German) 
Gabriel Metsu at the Louvre Museum, Paris
The Greens Market (or Vegetable Market) in Amsterdam
Louvre Museum Database, Paris
Mauritshuis Royal Picture Gallery, The Hague
Mauritshuis Royal Picture Gallery, The Hague
Great scans of Mauritshuis paintings, from the 'Memory of the Netherlands' project
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City NEW! 
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston NEW!
Paintings collection online
National Gallery, London, UK
National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. NEW!
Includes a biography of the artist
Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena, California
Prado Museum Database, Madrid NEW!
(Linking to the Spanish-language version because it contains far more works than the English version)
Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam NEW!
The Royal Collection, London, UK
Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto
View Into a Hall with a Jester, a Girl and her Dog
Cheltenham Art Gallery and Museum, UK
A Man and Woman at Wine
Frick Collection, New York City NEW!
A Lady at Her Toilet
Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indiana
Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minnesota 
Portrait of a Lady, 1667
National Gallery of Ireland, Dublin
Woman Reading a Letter, ca.1663
Philadelphia Museum of Art NEW!
Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium Catalogue (in French)
Companie galante
State Museums of Florence Digital Archive, Italy
Statens Museum for Kunst (National Gallery of Denmark), Copenhagen
Click "English" at the top right to switch the default language, then click "Search"
Teylers Museum, Haarlem, Netherlands NEW!
Works from the museum's drawings and engravings collection
The Wallace Collection, London, UK NEW!
The Walters Art Museum, Maryland NEW!
Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum, Madrid
(Images are zoomable; click on the "expand" icon below the detail image)
The Cook, ca.1657-62
Timken Museum of Art, San Diego, California
A Girl Receiving a Letter
Virtual Uffizi
A Lady and a Kinght
National Art Databases and Museum Inventories:
Art Fund for UK Museums
The Music Lesson & The Weary Sportsman by an Inn Door
Joconde Database of French Museum Collections (in French)
UK National Inventory of Continental European Paintings (NICE)
Art Market:
(e.g. records of past sales at auction; sites providing examples of the artist's signature)
Christie's Past Sale Archive
(database goes as far back as 1991; images go about as far back as 1999)
Sotheby's Sold Lot Archive
(database goes as far back as 1998; images where permitted by copyright go about as far back as 2001)
Pictures from Image Archives:
Google Art Project
The Sick Child (Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam)
Gabriel Metsu at The Art Renewal Center
Gabriel Metsu in the Web Gallery of Art
Wikimedia Commons Image Database 
World Visit Guide (formerly Insecula)
Bildindex der Kunst und Architektur (in German)
(a welcome screen is displayed for a couple of seconds before the search results appear)
California State University WorldImages Database
Gabriel Metsu at CGFA
Ciudad de la Pintura (in Spanish)
Memory of the Netherlands Project
Great scans; use your mouse wheel to zoom in on the detail images
Mondo Mostre, Milan (in Italian)
Painting from a 2008-2009 exhibition
New York Public Library Digital Gallery
RKD Netherlands Imagebase NEW!
Eclectic database of images that range from old black-and-white photos to superb, zoomable reproductions
State Hermitage Museum Unofficial Site
Additional Image Search Tools:
(SafeSearch set to "strict"; go to Advanced Search (Flickr/Google) or Preferences (Bing) to change)
Articles and Reference Sites:
Encyclopedia Britannica complete article on Gabriel Metsu 
Note: The full version of the article is available only if you follow this link. If you bookmark the article and return later, or if you navigate directly to the Britannica website, you will see a 100-word preview only. Troubleshooting
RKD Netherlands Institute for Art History
Union List of Artist Names (Getty Museum)
Reference sheet with basic information about the artist and pointers to other references.
Wikipedia, the "Open Content" Encyclopedia
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