Man Smoking a Pipe
Also titled Pijprokende man
Gerrit Dou (Leiden, 1613–1675)
c. 1650 - c. 1655
- Medium
- panel, oil paint (paint)
- Classification
- painting
- Dimensions
- frame: height 64 cm x width 52.8 cm x thickness 6.5 cm
- Museum
- Rijksmuseum
- Credit line
- Dupper Wzn. Bequest, Dordrecht
- 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
A young man leans on a window ledge, smoking a pipe and looking out at us. Dou was a master of illusionism. The open book on the sill seems to protrude from the window into our space, and the green curtain hanging from the copper rod is so realistically painted that we are tempted to draw it farther back. However, the painting’s small size gives away the deception.
