Male peasant smoking a pipe and holding a drinking cup, his left elbow resting on a table, another man seated at the table, a waitress walking through a doorway beyond, after a series of four prints showing peasants by David Teniers the Younger
David Teniers the Younger
after 1625–90
Medium
Etching
Dimensions
Sheet: 3 3/16 x 2 5/16 in. (8.1 x 5.8 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Bequest of Phyllis Massar, 2011
Accession Number
2012.136.649
Tags
MenWomenSmokingDrinking
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...