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Description: | This painting and its pair mimic the 'low-life' tavern interiors of Adriaen van Ostade. His popular scenes of impoverished alehouses animated by rugged and disreputable characters were imitated by a number of artists, both before and after his death. Here, the dress of the figures and the makeshift partition and seats appear consistent with Ostade's paintings of the 1630s, although the work was probably painted several decades later. The rather exaggerated deprivation of the scene continues the tradition of peasant satire - moralising on the excesses of drinking as the innkeeper reads the rather glum-looking customer his bill. | Subjects: | everyday life; interior | Source: | Vads | Creator: | Artist: Ostade, Adriaen van (Dutch draftsman and painter, 1610-1685) Æ Manner of Previously attributed to imitator of Teniers, David, II (Flemish painter, 1610-1690) | Identifier: | http://www.vads.ac.uk/large.php?uid=8875... | Go to resource |
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