Date : approx. between 1655 and 1660
Dimensions : 32 cm x 37 cm
Material : Peinture à l'huile sur chêne
Acquisition : Wynn Ellis Bequest (1876)
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Flemish and Northern Painting
Painting (Scène intérieure)
Area related
Delft (Neitherlands)
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The objects on the table - playing cards, an inn-keeper's slate and a pipe - suggest that the setting is a tavern. The sleeping woman, perhaps the inn-keeper's wife or maid, has been drinking and smoking. Female drunkenness was usually a subject of amusement as well as of moral reproval in 17th-century genre paintings.
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