Gabriel Metsu | National Gallery of Art https://www.nga.gov/artists/1717-gabriel-metsu
Gabriel Metsu was born in Leiden sometime between November 27 and mid-December 1629, about eight months after the death of his father, the Flemish painter Jacques Metsue. In 1644, when fifteen-year-old Gabriel Metsu joined a semiformal group of local artists, he entered the membership rolls as a “painter.� Six days after the establishment of Leiden’s Saint Luke’s Guild in 1648, Metsu paid his membership dues as an independent master.
Kornlein, Pancake Woman, 1768, chalk manner printed in black ink on laid paper and hand-colored