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Man with a Tankard at a Window
Adriaen van Ostade (Dutch, 1610–1685)
1650–60
- Medium
- Oil on panel
- Classification
- Painting
- Dimensions
- 28.1 × 23 cm (11 1/16 × 9 1/16 in.); Framed: 38.5 × 33.4 × 4.2 cm (15 1/8 × 13 1/8 × 1 5/8 in.)
- Culture
- Netherlands
- Museum
- Art Institute of Chicago, Painting and Sculpture of Europe
- Credit line
- Mr. and Mrs. Martin A. Ryerson Collection
- Rights
- Public domain (CC0), as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Teens profiles and older: its subject is for older viewers (war, death, the Passion, drink or the like). How works are placed
View at the Art Institute of Chicago
About this work
This man’s amused expression and casual pose—leaning jauntily against a window frame with a tankard in his hand—are typical of Adriaen van Ostade’s scenes of bemused figures. The artist was one of the great chroniclers of gaiety and folly in the latter half of the 17th century, having established the Dutch taste for smallscale scenes of figures drinking and smoking at windows. Picturesque details like the vines and leaded glass above the man’s head can be found in other small paintings by Van Ostade of women at windows, suggesting that he may have conceived of these cheerful works in pairs.
Description © Art Institute of Chicago, CC BY 4.0
