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Description: | This very finely painted work has all the hallmarks of David Teniers (1610-1690), the court painter to Archduke Leopold Wilhelm, Governor of the Spanish Netherlands. An extremely versatile painter, Teniers made a great success out of such small-scale paintings of peasant life. As the sky turns pink at dusk, four raggedly dressed peasants meet outside a cottage to have a drink and enjoy a game of bowls, after their work is done. The church in the background adds to the sense of the pastoral rhythms that dictated life in the countryside, which must have appealed to Teniers' urban patrons. | Subjects: | figure; everyday life | Source: | Vads | Creator: | Artist: Teniers, David, III (Flemish painter, 1638-1685) Æ Attributed to | Identifier: | http://www.vads.ac.uk/large.php?uid=8868... | Go to resource |
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