Wikipedia:Featured picture candidates/File:Man Writing a Letter by Gabriël Metsu.jpg

Man Writing a Letter - Woman Reading a Letter[edit]

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Original – Man Writing a Letter has its pair, the woman who is reading the letter posted by him. Exposed at the National Gallery of Ireland.
Original – Woman Reading a Letter

Reason: Gabriël Metsu (1629 – 1667) was a Dutch Golden Age painter, who's best pictures were genre works and portraits. While not that iconic as Vermeer, these pictures are of high artistic merit. These are works that are none the less wonderful examples of their particular type or school of art. They were nevertheless desirable and they were stolen a couple of times, in 1974 and again in 1986 from the Russborough House, from the Beit collection. Both times the Woman Reading a Letter and Man Writing a Letter was stolen and recovered. Painted as a a pair and also owned and stolen as a pair, they are currently exposed at the museum as a pair, at the National Gallery of Ireland.
Articles in which this image appears: Woman Reading a Letter and Man Writing a Letter and Gabriël Metsu
FP category for this image: Artwork/Paintings
Creator: Gabriël Metsu

Support as nominator – Hafspajen (talk) 20:19, 8 September 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Question - How do we know that this is supposed to be a pair? — Crisco 1492 (talk) 04:35, 9 September 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Comment They are exposed at the museum as a pair, "probably the artist’s most famous works". Also here Hafspajen (talk) 11:20, 9 September 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Hung as a pair... not proof of the artist's intentions, but good enough for me. Support set. — Crisco 1492 (talk) 03:18, 10 September 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Comment - You have proof now, it was also the artist's intention. We have 2 two new articles on them - and yes, it was painted as couple from the begining. Hafspajen (talk) 17:03, 10 September 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Support: as paired. Interesting history... Fylbecatulous talk 15:00, 10 September 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Support - a pair of interesting images. SagaciousPhil - Chat 13:55, 11 September 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Support pair/set --Godot13 (talk) 03:34, 12 September 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Promoted File:Man Writing a Letter by Gabriël Metsu.jpg --Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 20:21, 18 September 2014 (UTC)[reply]
Promoted File:Woman Reading a Letter by Gabriël Metsu.jpg --Armbrust ^{The Homunculus} 20:21, 18 September 2014 (UTC)[reply]