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
editThe 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
edit- ^ "The Smokers". metmuseum.org. Metropolitan Museum of Art. Retrieved September 8, 2017.
- ^ "The Smokers (1636)". Artble. Retrieved 2 June 2014.
- ^ a b c d Liedtke, Walter A. (1984). Flemish Paintings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Volume 1. Metropolitan Museum of Art. pp. 5–10. ISBN 9780870993565.
- ^ 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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