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Description: | Signed: yes Description: The woman smiling in this merry company could be the serving maid, who is diverted from her kitchen duties by the rowdy group of men drinking and smoking around a table. A fiddler animates the scene, displaying the lively humour characteristic of Molenaer's genre works. Molenaer specialised in this type of low-life subject from the 1640s. This peasant scene shows the characteristic coarse, painterly handling and darker palette that he used for genre subjects, in contrast with the more polished technique of his history and mythological paintings. | Subjects: | everyday life; figure | Source: | Vads | Creator: | Artist: Molenaer, Jan Miense (Dutch painter and printmaker, ca. 1610-1668) Æ | Identifier: | http://www.vads.ac.uk/large.php?uid=9035... | Go to resource |
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