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

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 by David Teniers the Younger

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 · 16101690

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...

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