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The Old Drinker
Also titled De oude drinker
Gabriël Metsu (Leiden, 1629–1667)
c. 1661 - c. 1663
- Medium
- panel, oil paint (paint)
- Classification
- painting
- Dimensions
- height 22 cm x width 19.5 cm
- Museum
- Rijksmuseum
- Rights
- Public Domain Mark, 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
About this work
This old man holding a beer tankard looks out at us somewhat drowsily. The tally of the drinks he has consumed is chalked up on the slate behind him. The beer barrel at the left bears the mark of Het Rode Hert (The Red Hart), an Amsterdam brewery on the Prinsengracht. Metsu was living next door to it around 1650.
