The Smokers (painting)

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The Smokers (c. 1636) by Adriaen Brouwer

The Smokers is a painting by the Flemish painter Adriaen Brouwer, painted in c. 1636, probably in Antwerp. It hangs in The Metropolitan Museum of Art, in New York. [1]

The oil-on-wood painting measures 46.40 by 36.80 centimetres (18.27 in × 14.49 in) and is signed by the artist. [2] [3]

Description

The painting is of five young men smoking pipes and drinking beer. At the time smoking was new and controversial. [3] Brouwer included a self-portrait: he is the one turning to face the viewer while lifting a drinking mug and exhaling smoke. [4] While the subjects have not been identified with certainty, it has been suggested the person in black and white apparel depicted on the right is painter Jan de Heem; [3] the person in the middle is Joos van Craesbeeck; the person depicted blowing smoke out of his nose is painter Jan Cossiers; [3] and Jan Lievens is the person on the far left.[ citation needed ]

References

  1. ↑ "The Smokers". metmuseum.org. Metropolitan Museum of Art. Retrieved September 8, 2017.
  2. ↑ "The Smokers (1636)". Artble. Retrieved 2 June 2014.
  3. 1 2 3 4 Liedtke, Walter A. (1984). Flemish Paintings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Volume 1. Metropolitan Museum of Art. pp. 5–10. ISBN   9780870993565.
  4. ↑ Sutton, Peter C. (2002). Dutch & Flemish Paintings: The Collection of Willem Baron Van Dedem. Frances Lincoln Ltd. p. 47. ISBN   9780711220102.
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