A Young Woman composing Music, observed by a Man, another Woman playing the Lute (after...

after Gabriel Metsu (Leyden 1629 – Amsterdam 1669). Oil painting on canvas, A Young Woman composing Music, observed by a Man, another Woman playing the Lute, after Gabriel Metsu (Leyden 1629 – Amsterdam 1669), signed, with bogus initials, bottom left: G.T.,18th century. The interior of an apartment, with a lady seated at a table writing a letter, whilst a youth leans upon the back of her chair and a girl plays the mandolin; a dog in the foreground. This is an 18th century copy of Metsu's signed painting of around 1662/3, from Willem V's collection, in the Mauritshuis. A copy was recorded at Abbeville in the 18th century which could be this picture. Vyne Estate, Hampshire (Accredited Museum)