Gabriël Metsu, 1660 - A Woman Seated at a Window - fine art print

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A Woman Seated at a Window was painted by Gabriël Metsu. The original measures the size: 10 7/8 x 8 7/8 in (27,6 x 22,5 cm). Oil on wood was used by the European artist as the technique for the artpiece. This artwork can be viewed in in the digital art collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art. With courtesy of: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, The Jack and Belle Linsky Collection, 1982 (public domain license). Creditline of the artwork: The Jack and Belle Linsky Collection, 1982. What is more, the alignment is portrait and has a ratio of 1 : 1.2, which means that the length is 20% shorter than the width.

Fine art print materials that you can select:

We offer a range of various sizes and materials for every product. You can choose among the following product customization options:

• Acrylic glass print (with real glass coating): An print on acrylic glass, often denoted as a print on plexiglass, changes your favorite original work of art into beautiful home decoration. Beyond that, the acrylic glass art print makes a good alternative option to aluminium or canvas fine art replicas. The work of art is being made with modern UV printing technology. It creates sharp, rich colors. The major advantage of an acrylic glass fine art print is that contrasts and also artwork details become exposed because of the very subtle gradation. Our real glass coating protects your selected art print against light and external influences for up to 60 years.
• Metal (aluminium dibond print): An Aluminium Dibond print is a material with an impressive effect of depth. For the Direct Print On Aluminum Dibond, we print the selected work of art on the aluminium composite white-primed surface. The bright & white sections of the original work of art shine with a silk gloss but without any glow.
• The canvas print: A canvas print is a printed cotton canvas mounted on a wood stretcher. Additionally, a printed canvas produces a soft and pleasant look. The great advantage of canvas prints is that they are relatively low in weight. That means, it is quite simple to hang up your Canvas print without additional wall-mounts. Canvas prints are suited for all kinds of walls.
• Poster print on canvas material: Our poster print is a UV printed sheet of flat canvas with a slightly roughened structure on the surface, that resembles the actual artwork. It is particularly designed for putting your fine art print in a custom-made frame. Please keep in mind, that depending on the absolute size of the canvas poster print we add a white margin 2-6cm around the work of art in order to facilitate the framing.

Legal disclaimer: We try the best we can to describe our products as clearly as possible and to illustrate them visually. Nevertheless, some colors of the printing material and the print result might diverge to a certain extent from the presentation on your device's screen. Depending on your screen settings and the nature of the surface, color pigments can unfortunately not be printed 100% realistically. Since all our art reproductions are processed and printed by hand, there might also be slight variations in the exact position and the size of the motif.

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What does the The Metropolitan Museum of Art say about the work of art from the painter Gabriël Metsu? (© Copyright - The Metropolitan Museum of Art - The Metropolitan Museum of Art)

A housewife holds an apple, which in this context more likely refers to the New Eve (the Virgin Mary) than the old one. The birdcage and hearth imply happy domesticity, while the grapevine alludes to the woman as "a fruitful vine by the sides of thine house" (Psalm 128). The original buyer of such a painting, if he had opinions about art as well as women, would probably have described it as a nisstuck, meaning "niche-piece" or "window-niche," an illusionistic format popularized by Gerrit Dou.