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Description: | This dark tavern scene, with three men smoking pipes, is probably influenced by the work of the seventeenth-century Flemish painter Adriaen Brouwer, and the Dutch artist Adriaen van Ostade, who popularised such scenes in the Netherlands at this time. Though this work lacks the characterisation in the figures of either Brouwer or Ostade, the artist has represented the three ages of man, young, middle aged and old, united in the communal act of smoking. A rough sketch pinned to the wall of the tavern demonstrates the popularity of small genre paintings in the Netherlands in the seventeenth century - this work may well have been sold on the open market to a member of the middle class. | Subjects: | everyday life; figure; interior | Source: | Vads | Creator: | Artist: Dutch School Æ Attributed to | Identifier: | http://www.vads.ac.uk/large.php?uid=8649... | Go to resource |
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