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Metsu is aware that Uruguay, which needs to win by two clear goals to edge Senegal for a place in the second round, may resort to underhanded tactics to get under his team's skin.
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Metsu is hoping defender Aliou Cisse and midfielder Khalilou
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Metsu could convincingly evoke many of the other leading painters of the period.
A Dutch Master Returns Karen Wilkin 2011
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According to Arthur K. Wheelock Jr., the National Gallery's curator of northern baroque painting and the show's coordinator, the exhibition attempts to deal with "the problem of Metsu"—that is, to make sense of the many diverse types of pictures he produced during his relatively brief career.
A Dutch Master Returns Karen Wilkin 2011
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Wheelock calls the really interesting question, given the painter's chameleon qualities and multiple subjects: "What makes a Metsu a Metsu?"
A Dutch Master Returns Karen Wilkin 2011
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Wheelock speculates that Metsu's atypical, restless investigation of different approaches may indicate a canny sense of what would today be called "niche marketing"—testing the Dutch art-buying public's appetites as he aimed at establishing himself as someone to be reckoned with, first in his native Leiden and then in Amsterdam; he might have, for example, explored how Amsterdammers responded to picturesque Leiden-style images of elderly women and then tried something else if interest waned.
A Dutch Master Returns Karen Wilkin 2011
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But it's Metsu's quirky range that delights us most.
A Dutch Master Returns Karen Wilkin 2011
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A dead rooster hung upside down, white feathers looming against darkness, points to Chardin, as does a kitchen maid peeling apples, reminding us of Metsu's 18th-century eminence.
A Dutch Master Returns Karen Wilkin 2011
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Today, while the name Johannes Vermeer guarantees record crowds at any exhibition, that of his contemporary Gabriel Metsu is familiar mainly to serious devotees of Dutch Golden Age painting.
A Dutch Master Returns Karen Wilkin 2011
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In the 18th century, the best-informed dealers and collectors would have counseled against buying a Vermeer if a Metsu was available.
A Dutch Master Returns Karen Wilkin 2011
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