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Description: | Signed: yes Description: There is a strong element of caricature in the treatment of the figures represented in this inn interior. The distorted physiognomy of the woman eating in the foreground and her companion are closer to satire than to the light, humorous tone of Dutch tavern scenes. In the background, one of the drinkers has collapsed over the table. Images of physical excess and social awkwardness associated with popular types could be regarded as amusing by the urban middle and upper classes, intent on dissociating themselves from the disorder of the country inn. | Subjects: | everyday life (tavern) | Source: | Vads | Creator: | Artist: Nieudorp, Thys Wiertsz. (Dutch artist, active mid-17th century) Æ | Identifier: | http://www.vads.ac.uk/large.php?uid=8960... | Go to resource |
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