Two male peasants holding pipes before a fireplace, one seated with the pipe held to his mouth, to his left the other stands with the pipe in his right hand, after a series of four prints of peasants by David Teniers the Younger
David Teniers the Younger
After 1625–90
Medium
Etching
Dimensions
Sheet: 3 1/4 x 2 3/8 in. (8.2 x 6.1 cm)
Classification
Prints
Department
Drawings and Prints
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Bequest of Phyllis Massar, 2011
Accession Number
2012.136.648
Tags
MenSmoking
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...