# Figures before a Village Inn

- By: Cornelis Saftleven (Gorinchem, 1607–1681)
- Date: 1642
- Medium: panel, oil paint (paint)
- Classification: painting
- Dimensions: support: height 62 cm x width 82.6 cm
- Credit line: Jonkheer J.S.H. van de Poll Bequest, Amsterdam
- Museum: [Rijksmuseum](https://www.rijksmuseum.nl/en/collection/object/SK-A-715--855b12d91421baa9f9961859b39f1a8d)
- Rights: [Public Domain Mark](http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/)
- Picture: https://invisiblenetwork.ai/thumbs/web/be40ec20ecc346a57dfeae61a16f2b22.jpg
- Who can see it: Tweens profiles and older (museums give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the museum's own words)

A storm is brewing. The man at the left has clearly already had too much to drink yet is ordering more. The dangerous dagger of the man in blue signals trouble. The couple at the right makes love half-heartedly. And the portly mendicant friar absorbed in his card game … did he not take a vow of poverty? This will not end well.