Boors Smoking and Drinking
after Adriaen Brouwer (Oudenaarde 1605/6 - Antwerp 1638)
Category
Art / Oil paintings
Date
1630 - 1669
Materials
Oil on panel
Measurements
162 x 127 mm (6 ⅜ x 5 in)
Place of origin
Flanders (Belgium from 1830)
Order this imageCollection
Ham House, Surrey
NT 1139903
Summary
Oil painting on panel, Boors Smoking and Drinking, after Adriaen Brouwer (Oudenaarde 1606 – Antwerp 1638), mid 17th century. Group of boors in a tavern interior. Left foreground: a seated boor, wearing a red cap and blue gaiters, holding a jug in his left hand and a pipe in his right, breathing out smoke; behind him, a seated boor sleeping, his head slumped on his shoulder; behind him, an open-mouthed boor in a brown hat; to the right, a group of three figures, from left to right: a boor hunched over, looking with interest; another in a brown hat, with his head propped on his left hand; another to the right, stuffing tobacco into his pipe. Right foreground: seated boor in cream cap, lighting a pipe from a lit log; behind him, in the middle ground, a three-legged stool, supporting a jug and a black hat. Right background: two hunched figures; man standing at open window/stable door, with his back to the viewer, looking out. The original of this composition is lost. Another copy, also on panel, was given by Bredius (as an original) in 1894 to the Staatliche Gemäldegalerie in Kassel.
Provenance
In 1683 valuation and thence by descent until acquired in 1948 by HM Government when Sir Lyonel, 4th Bt (1854 – 1952) and Sir Cecil Tollemache, 5th Bt (1886 – 1969) presented Ham House to the National Trust, and entrusted to the care of the Victoria & Albert Museum, until 1990, when returned to the care of the National Trust, and to which ownership was transferred in 2002
Credit line
Ham House, The Dysart Collection (purchased by HM Government in 1948 and transferred to the National Trust in 2002)
Makers and roles
after Adriaen Brouwer (Oudenaarde 1605/6 - Antwerp 1638), artist
