Two men sit playing cards at a narrow table as three more look on and others urinate, sleep, or gather near the entrance of a tavern in this horizontal painting. All the people have pale, peachy skin and wear jackets, pants, and hats in shades of fawn brown, muted marine blue, parchment white, and charcoal gray. The card players take up the bottom left quadrant of the composition. The player to our left holds his cards out so we can see them as he lifts a tall tankard. He sits on a wooden chair with a vivid red cap hanging from one rail on the back. The player across from him sits on a…
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Tavern Scene

David Teniers the Younger (Flemish, 1610 - 1690)

1658

Medium
oil on panel
Classification
Painting
Dimensions
overall: 48.7 x 68.7 cm (19 3/16 x 27 1/16 in.) ; framed: 69.2 x 89.5 cm (27 1/4 x 35 1/4 in.)
Culture
Flemish
Museum
National Gallery of Art, CNE-B
Credit line
Gift of Robert H. and Clarice Smith
Rights
Public domain (NGA Open Access, 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

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