1640
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From the collection of Cleveland Museum of Art
Peasants Smoking in an Inn is a 1640 unspecified by David Teniers the Younger, a Baroque work, depicting Smoking, held at Cleveland Museum of Art.
You see two men smoking in a dimly lit inn. The younger man looks like he's had too much to smoke, his head is back and he's resting on the wall. This was a common scene in Flemish life, and the artist liked to paint everyday moments like this. Check out more works like this at The Cleveland Museum of Art.
David Teniers the Younger was a popular artist who specialized in small paintings of rustic Flemish life in the 1600s. In works such as Peasants Smoking in an Inn , an older man and a younger man in the foreground smoke tobacco. The younger man rests limply against the wall and his head lolls back, a gesture that symbolized that he had overindulged in smoke. Another standing man prepares his pipe and watches the younger man with amusement. Tobacco was a novelty in the 1600s, introduced from the Americas and East Indies with other new imports such as sugar cane and rice, and was believed to be…
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David Teniers the Younger or David Teniers II was a Flemish Baroque painter, printmaker, and artist.
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