Gabriel Metsu
Young Woman Pouring Beer And A Young Man Smoking In An Interior
Found at
Sothebys,
New York
Important Old Master Paintings and European Works of Art, Lot 15
26. Jan - 26. Jan 2007
Important Old Master Paintings and European Works of Art, Lot 15
26. Jan - 26. Jan 2007
Estimate: 200.000 - 300.000 USD
Price realised: 1.328.000 USD
Price realised: 1.328.000 USD
Description
Gabriel MetsuLeiden 1629 - 1669 Amsterdam
LEIDEN 1629 - 1669 AMSTERDAM
YOUNG WOMAN POURING BEER AND A YOUNG MAN SMOKING IN AN INTERIOR
signed on the edge of the table Metsu.
oil on panel
14 3/4 by 12 1/2 in.; 37.5 by 31.6 cm.
Grave van Wassenaar (according to Hoet); | Willem Lormier, 1735; | His deceased sale, the Hague, Franken, July 4, 1763, lot 179, sold for 605 florins, De heer van Heekeren (?), as een man en een vrouw aan Tafel zittende om te Eeten (An man and a woman seated at a tableeating); | Mr. de Nogaret; | His sale, Paris, Le Brun, June 2, 1780, sold for 3 800 francs; | Duc de Choiseul-Praslin; | His deceased sale, Paris, Boileau, February 18, 1793, lot 64
LEIDEN 1629 - 1669 AMSTERDAM
YOUNG WOMAN POURING BEER AND A YOUNG MAN SMOKING IN AN INTERIOR
signed on the edge of the table Metsu.
oil on panel
14 3/4 by 12 1/2 in.; 37.5 by 31.6 cm.
Grave van Wassenaar (according to Hoet); | Willem Lormier, 1735; | His deceased sale, the Hague, Franken, July 4, 1763, lot 179, sold for 605 florins, De heer van Heekeren (?), as een man en een vrouw aan Tafel zittende om te Eeten (An man and a woman seated at a tableeating); | Mr. de Nogaret; | His sale, Paris, Le Brun, June 2, 1780, sold for 3 800 francs; | Duc de Choiseul-Praslin; | His deceased sale, Paris, Boileau, February 18, 1793, lot 64
Artwork auctioned at four times the upper estimate price
When the work Young Woman Pouring Beer And A Young Man Smoking In An Interior by Gabriel Metsu was auctioned at Sothebys in New York in January 2007, the result exceeded expectations many times over. The upper estimate was set at a - in retrospect quite modest - USD 300,000.00 but the actual price achieved was more than four times as high at USD 1,328,000.00 (€ 1,021,695.65). Despite this good result, it is not the highest hammer price for an artwork by Gabriel Metsu; that achieved among the auctions we observed the lot A Woman Selling Game From A Stall sold at auction in July 2009 with the realized price of GBP 1,161,250.00 (€ 1,317,670.67).
Kunstwerk zum Vierfachen des oberen Schätzpreises versteigert
Als die Arbeit Young Woman Pouring Beer And A Young Man Smoking In An Interior von Gabriel Metsu im Januar 2007 bei Sothebys in New York versteigert wurde, übertraf das Ergebnis die Erwartungen um ein Vielfaches. Der obere Schätzpreis war mit – rückwirkend betrachtet recht bescheidenen – USD 300.000,00 angesetzt, der tatsächlich erzielte Preis hingegen war mit USD 1.328.000,00 (€ 1.021.695,65) mehr als viermal so hoch. Trotz des guten Ergebnisses ist dies nicht der höchste Zuschlag für ein Kunstwerk von Gabriel Metsu; den erzielte unter den von uns beobachteten Auktionen die Arbeit A Woman Selling Game From A Stall im Juli 2009 mit dem Hammerpreis von GBP 1.161.250,00 (€ 1.317.670,67).
Gabriel Metsu - Auction history
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