Subject
Drinking

Drinking is a subject in art. The gallery holds 175 works in this subject in art, including works by Edgar Degas, Seymour Joseph Guy and Johannes Vermeer.
An alcoholic beverage (also called an alcoholic drink or strong drink) is any drink that contains alcohol, a central nervous system depressant. They are typically divided into three classes: beers, wines, and spirits; with alcohol content typically between 3% and 50%.
Key artists
Works
The Dissolute Household
Untitled
A Woman and Two Men in an Arbor
Tavern Scene
The Hunt Breakfast
A Party of Merrymakers
Interior with a company celebrating Twelfth Night, the Feast of Epiphany
Roman Girl at a Fountain
夕顔棚下納涼図|Enjoying the Evening Cool under a Gourd Trellis
Untitled
The Bistro
Drinking Festival of the Eight Immortals of the Wine Cup
Untitled
The Crossing Sweeper
Sense of Taste
Tavern Scene
清 羅聘 篠園飲酒圖 軸|Drinking in the Bamboo Garden on the Lantern Festival
The Wine Glass
At Table
Old Man and Woman
Peasants in a Tavern
Peasants in a Tavern
A Militiaman Holding a Berkemeyer, Known as the ‘Merry Drinker’
Boors Drinking in a Barn
Boisterous Peasants at an Inn
Cheating at cards
Country Inn
The Master Drinker
The Old Drinker
Interior of a peasant hut
Four Youths around a Fire
Men and Women at a Country Inn
Vestjyder uden for høkeren
Man with a tankard, a knife, and bread
Capture of Fort Casimir from the Dutch
Two grinning men behind a table with a pewter, glass of wine and bread
Breakfast of a Young Man
Satire on drunkenness – allegorical scene
The peasant's misfortune
De vrolijke speelman
Woman Holding a Jug
Peasants at an Inn
Drengene om vællingen
The Merry Drinker
Zwei singende Bauern
Der Geschmack
Bauernschenke
Two Soldiers and a Serving Woman with a Trumpeter
Teegesellschaft
Canoe; Tahitian Family (Te vaa)
Bar Tabare
Innkeeper Singing (copy)
Gentlemen playing backgammon
A Man with a Jug and Girl with a Viol
Courtship of an old man
Dancing in front of a tavern
Merry-making in a tavern
The Drinkers
Study for "An Aragonese Smuggler"
The Card Game
Kristiania Bohemians
Tête-à-tête
The Five Senses
Unidentified Flemish Proverb
The Five Senses: Sight
Backgammon Players
A Flemish Interior
A Street Scene with Knife Grinder and Elegant Couple
Peasant at a Window
Quarreling Children
Merry Company
Travellers by a well
Drinking Man and an Old Smoking Man
The Demon
Sophonisba
Two Peasants Singing
Taste: The five senses by J.M. Molenaer
To Each His Own
Interior of an Italian coffee-house
Boors Carousing
Studies of a Man Drinking
A Bearded Gentleman with a Glass of Wine
Interior of an Inn
A Man drinking: 'Gluttony'
The Well-Master at Medevi and His Sons
The Smoker
Rauchende Bauern
Vintage Festival
Peasants Drinking at a Window
Genre scene in a tavern
Peasant family
Drinkers
Playing checkers
Peasants drinking wine
Scene from William Shakespeare's 'Twelfth Night' (Act II, Scene 3)
My Father and Piacsek, with Red Wine
Interior with Five Figures
Court of a Tavern
Descendant joyeusement le fleuve de la vie
La Reconciliation
Duendecitos (Hobgoblins)
Soupe à Trois Sous (Soup for three sous [pennies])
A la table de jeu (1ère planche) (At the Gambling Table) (first plate)
Quelle est votre opinion sur ...
Death
C'est fini!...(grande planche) (It is Finished!...) (large plate)
Siesta of a Laborer (Sieste d'un ouvrier)
Vue prise a la buvette pendant la canicule
Prestation ... d'un ... membre ... du dix Décembre ...
Bavant pour se desennuyer
Pèlerins d'Emmaüs (Pilgrims at Emmaus)
L'Eau du puits de Grenelle
Taste
At The House of Gold (A la maison d'or)
Ce qu'on est convenue d'appeler un rafraichissement
Nadie nos ha visto (No One Has Seen Us)
Toast porté a l'émancipation des femmes ...
In the Skating Professional Beauty
L'Eau du puits de Grenelle
Seated Peasant with Jug
Faut de la prudence père Balivot, vot petite a seize ans...
Gin Lane
When Your Purse Is Empty, You Eat Bones Not Bacon
Ducarre at the Ambassadeurs (Ducarre aux ambassadeurs)
Di Ti Fellow - Englishmen at the Cafe-Concert (Di Ti Fellow - Anglaise au Café-Concert)
Comment trouvez-vous ce petit vin-la...
Drunken Peasant at an Inn
Nouvelle mode anglaise
A la table de jeu (1ère planche) (At the Gambling Table) (first plate)
Soupe à Trois Sous
Scène de cabinet particulier (planche en largeur au lavis) (Scene in a Private Room) (horizontal plate with wash)
En v'la un, il pourrait bien être malheureux...
Ornament with a Couple of Tritons Blowing Horns
Women Ironing
The good news
Riña en una taberna
Self portrait with a glass of wine
A Chemist in His Laboratory
The Toast
Merry Company in an Interior
Ranskalainen viinikapakka
The Bistro
Boy Drinking
Old Man and Woman
Țărani
Iloinen seurue
Țărani la masă
Roomalainen osteria, kopio Alexander Lauréuksen mukaan
Drinking Bout in a Tavern
Interior of a Peasant Hut
The Peasant's Misfortune
An Interior with a Man Holding Up a Glass and an Old Woman Lighting a Pipe
歌川芳虎画 『五箇国人物 呑飥之図』|People of the Five Nations Drinking and Eating (Gokakoku jinbutsu dontaku no zu)
The Drinkers
Untitled
Gaikokujin Sake no zu|A Foreigner's Wine Party (Gaikokujin shuen no zu), from an untitled series of foreigners at home
Untitled
Inside the Nag's Head at Braintree on Market Day
東錦浮世稿談-幡随院長兵衛|Banzuiin Chōbei, from the series Story of Brocades of the East in the Floating World (Azuma no hana ukiyo kōdan - Banzuiin Chōbei)
外国人物図畫仏蘭西|France, from the series Pictures of People from Foreign Lands (Gaikoku jinbutsu zuga)
Amerika jin Yuko Sakamori|An American Carousing
Vestjyder uden for høkeren
Peasants at an Inn
Fancy Group, Indore II
The Drinker (Portrait of Wirts Rauecker)
Au coq du brûyeres
Interior de cârciumă
Physiology of Drinking: The Four Ages
The Irish and American Bar, Rue Royale
In the Hanneton
The Amorous Couple
No One has Seen Us, Plate 79
H Beard Print Collection
Frontispiece to The Farmer's Return
H Beard Print Collection
Frequently asked questions
What is Drinking?
Drinking is a subject in art. An alcoholic beverage (also called an alcoholic drink or strong drink) is any drink that contains alcohol, a central nervous system depressant.
How many Drinking works does Artifact World Gallery have?
Artifact World Gallery holds 175 public-domain Drinking works, all free to view and download.
Who are the key Drinking artists?
Key Drinking artists in the collection include Edgar Degas, Seymour Joseph Guy and Johannes Vermeer.
Where can I see Drinking works?
Drinking works in the collection are held by National Gallery of Art, Metropolitan Museum of Art and Cleveland Museum of Art.