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Description: | This picture, painted on two horizontal panels, describes a Netherlandish low life subject with boorish peasant folk sitting in a dark tavern, drinking and smoking. The focus is on the central group of five men sitting at a table. A man (left) with staring eyes and head tilted back, inhales tobacco. An uncouth figure seated opposite holds a glass in front of his belly with mouth wide open as if shouting. The monochrome palette is enlivened with touches of white, blue, red and green. The grotesque faces and gestures recall Brouwer and Ostade's work satirising the pursuits of immoderate sensual gratification. | Subjects: | figure; interior; everyday life | Source: | Vads | Creator: | Artist: Dutch School Æ Attributed to | Identifier: | http://www.vads.ac.uk/large.php?uid=8507... | Go to resource |
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