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Description: | This small oil painting shows a shoemaker at work, surrounded by the tools of his trade. Above the shoemaker's head hangs a wicker cage, inside which is a canary, and a broken clay pipe lies on the floor. This work is based on an engraving by J. P. Le Bas dated 1744, which is in turn based on a lost painting by David Teniers the younger, the prolific seventeenth-century Dutch painter of everyday-life scenes. The colour and technique are reminiscent of Teniers's works, but the painting seems to be of eighteenth-, rather than seventeenth-century, date. | Subjects: | figure; interior; animal (bird canary); trade and industry (shoemaker) | Source: | Vads | Creator: | Artist: Teniers, David, II (Flemish painter, 1610-1690) Æ After After Le Bas, Jacques Philippe (French printmaker, 1707-1783) Attributed to Flemish School Previously attributed to Teniers, David, II (Flemish painter, 1610-1690) | Identifier: | http://www.vads.ac.uk/large.php?uid=8543... | Go to resource |
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