The Netherland galleries : being a history of the Dutch school of painting, illuminated and demonstrated by critical descriptions of the great paintings in the many galleries (1912)
Preyer, David C. (David Charles), 1861-1913 · Boston : St. Botolph Society · leaf 300
uild. The Choice of a Lover, by Nicolaes Moeyaert(Plate XII), bears a false signature of G. Metsu,to whom it was ascribed at one time, for what otherreason besides the signature is hardly discernible.The painting shows considerable skill, but lacks theelaborate background that we look for in… … Hdalfes Ubrouab tbe Galleries 225 her smiling- choice, of her own station in life. An-other young man, of well-to-do appearance, holdsup a wine glass to which he points invitingly ashe beckons to the maiden who ignores him. It isa plain morality — that true love chooses pov-erty, if need be, in…
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