A moneylender visited by a woman customer who is weeping. Etching by Léopold Flameng after Gabriel Metsu.

  • Metsu, Gabriel, 1629-1667.
Date:
[1873?]
Reference:
29539i
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Description

A man is sitting at a table with an open chest and money bags on it, nearby stands a woman who is in tears

Publication/Creation

[Paris?] : [publisher not identified], [1873?] (Ch. Chardonaine)

Physical description

1 print : etching ; image 15.2 x 13.5 cm

Lettering

L'usurier. Gabriel Metsu pinx. Léopold Flameng sc. Also published as 'Le peseur d'or'-- Adhémar and Lethève, loc. cit.

References note

H. Beraldi, Graveurs du XIXe siècle, Paris 1887, vol II, no 281
Jean Adhémar and Jacques Lethève, Inventaire du fonds français après 1800, Bibliothèque nationale, Département des estampes, tome VII, Paris 1954, p. 580, no. 194 ("Le peseur d'or d'apr. Metsu, dans la Gazette des Beaux-Arts (et non dans l'Art), 1873, B.281")

Reference

Wellcome Collection 29539i

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