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Description: | A peasant smelling a flower seems a strightforward subject but also carried an allegorical meaning. Flowers bloom briefly and are thus often a symbol of the transience of life. Such allegiores were common in sixteenth- and seventeenth-century painting. David Teniers the Younger was a member of a famous Flemish artistic dynasty and the son of David Teniers the Elder. He is mostly known for his genre scenes, but also for his still lifes, landscapes and portraits. He married the daughter of Jan Bruegel the Elder thus joining the great Bruegel artistic family. His first genre paintings were influenced by Adriaen Brouwer. His early landscapes reflect aspects of the style and technique of Jan Bruegel the Elder and Paul Bril. He became very well known, eclipsing his father's reputation. However, such was his popularity that he was widely imitated in the later seventeenth and throughout the eighteenth century; this work may be by a follower. | Subjects: | portrait; allegory (sense of smell) | Source: | Vads | Creator: | Artist: Teniers, David, II (Flemish painter, 1610-1690) Æ Attributed to circle of | Identifier: | http://www.vads.ac.uk/large.php?uid=8453... | Go to resource |
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