Gabriel Metsu (artist) Dutch, 1629 - 1667 The Intruder, c. 1660 oil on panel overall: 66.6 x 59.4 cm (26 1/4 x 23 3/8 in.) framed: 93.4 x 85.1 x 12.1 cm (36 3/4 x 33 1/2 x 4 3/4 in.) Andrew W. Mellon Collection 1937.1.57 On View

From the Tour: Johannes Vermeer and Dutch Scenes of Daily Life in the 1600s
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Provenance

Colonel Gregory Holman Bromley Way [1766-1844], Denham Place, Buckinghamshire;[1] (John Smith, London), by 1830; George John Vernon, 5th baron Vernon [1803-1866], Sudbury Hall, Derby, in 1830; (sale, Christie & Manson, London, 15 April 1831, no. 50); (John Smith, London); Sir Charles Bagot [1781-1843], by 1833; (sale, Christie & Manson, London, 18 June 1836, no. 56); Albertus Brondgeest, The Hague, buying for Baron Johan Gijsberg Verstolk van Soelen [1776-1845], The Hague; probably (sale, The Hague, 29 June 1846); Thomas Baring [1799-1873], London, and Stratton Park, Hampshire;[2] by inheritance to his nephew, Thomas George Baring, 1st earl of Northbrook [1826-1904], Stratton Park, Hampshire; by inheritance to his son, Francis George Baring, 2nd earl of Northbrook [1850-1929], Stratton Park; sold March 1927 to (Duveen Brothers, Inc., London, New York, and Paris);[3] sold November 1927 to Andrew W. Mellon, Pittsburgh and Washington, D.C.; deeded 28 December 1934 to The A.W. Mellon Educational and Charitable Trust, Pittsburgh; gift 1937 to NGA.

[1] See the introduction to William Henry James Weale, A Descriptive Catalogue of the Collection of Pictures Belonging to the Earl of Northbrook, 2 vols., London, 1889, regarding the early provenance of this picture.

[2] Thomas Baring jointly purchased the Verstolk Collection in 1846 with Lord Overstone (Samuel Jones Loyd) and Humphrey Mildmay. That same year he obtained the sole ownership of the painting from the joint purchase.

[3] Duveen Brothers Records, accession number 960015, Getty Research Institute, Research Library, Los Angeles: reel 124, box 269, folders 14-17.

Associated Names

• Bagot, Charles, Sir
• Northbrook Thomas George Baring, 1st Earl of
• Northbrook Francis George Baring, 2nd Earl of
• Baring, Thomas
• Brondgeest, Albertus
• Christie & Manson
• Christie & Manson
• Duveen Brothers, Inc.
• Mellon, Andrew W.
• Mellon Educational and Charitable Trust, The A.W.
• Sale, The Hague
• Smith, John
• Smith, John
• Soelen, Johan Gijsberg Verstolk van, Baron
• Vernon, George John Vernon, 5th Baron
• Way, Gregory Holman Bromley, Colonel

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