Jean Pelletier After Gerard Metsu, The Sleeping Sportsman

Jean Pelletier After Gerard Metsu, The Sleeping SportsmanThis 18th century engraving by French printmaker Jean Pelletier (1736 1780) is after a painting by Dutch artist Gerard Metsu (1629 1667), which is currently in the Wallace Collection. Slumped against a wall with pipe in hand, hes drunk. In fact, everyones a little drunk, but hes the drunkest. Having returned from a shoot with two impressive game birds, only one of these two gentlemen is able to hold the goods. Hes standing proud while the other is

we see an inherited love for sailing and deep respect for those working at sea

Drawing out nature’s natural beauty while avoiding contrivance

In around 1935

has captured the scenery perfectly and we particularly like the building on the left

Overall size: 25½” x 21½” / 65cm x 55cm

A worn late 19th-century portrait of a young man with a moustache and long hair

A fine early 20th-century signed etching titled ‘Young Womanhood’ by English artist

Søeborg trained at Sophus and Gustav Vermehren’s drawing school and later at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts

9” x 10¼” / 23cm x 26cm

Medium: Oil on canvasOverall size: 13” x 21” / 34cm x 53cmYear of creation: 1920Provenance: FranceCondition: A few minor losses but overall very presentable

Christmas 1933

Note also the composition