The Smokers is a painting by the Flemish painter Adriaen Brouwer, painted in c. 1636, probably in Antwerp. It hangs in The Metropolitan Museum of Art, in New York.
The oil-on-wood painting measures 46.40 by 36.80 centimetres (18.27 in × 14.49 in) and is signed by the artist.
Description
The painting is of five young men smoking pipes and drinking beer. At the time smoking was new and controversial. Brouwer included a self-portrait: he is the one turning to face the viewer while lifting a drinking mug and exhaling smoke. While the subjects have not been identified with certainty, it has been suggested the person in black and white apparel depicted on the right is painter Jan de Heem; the person in the middle is Joos van Craesbeeck; the person depicted blowing smoke out of his nose is painter Jan Cossiers; and Jan Lievens is the person on the far left.
References
- "The Smokers". metmuseum.org. Metropolitan Museum of Art. Retrieved September 8, 2017.
- "The Smokers (1636)". Artble. Retrieved 2 June 2014.
- ^ Liedtke, Walter A. (1984). Flemish Paintings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Volume 1. Metropolitan Museum of Art. pp. 5–10. ISBN 9780870993565.
- Sutton, Peter C. (2002). Dutch & Flemish Paintings: The Collection of Willem Baron Van Dedem. Frances Lincoln Ltd. p. 47. ISBN 9780711220102.
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