A Family Carousing
17th century
Medium
Black chalk
Dimensions
6 5/16 x 8 13/16 in. (16.1 x 22.4 cm)
Classification
Drawings
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Purchase, Anonymous Gift, in memory of Frits Markus, and Frits and Rita Markus Fund, 2001
Accession Number
2001.281
Tags
About the Artist
David Teniers the Younger · 1610–1690
David Teniers the Younger (1610–1690) was a Flemish painter who became one of the most versatile and prolific artists of the seventeenth-century Southern Netherlands, renowned for his peasant genre scenes, elegant gallery paintings, and his role as court painter and curator. Born in Antwerp, he trained under his father, David Teniers the Elder, and was influenced by Adriaen Brouwer's peasant subje...