The Smokers (painting)
Painting by Adriaen Brouwer
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The Smokers is a painting by the Flemish painter Adriaen Brouwer, painted in about 1636, probably in Antwerp. It hangs in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, in New York.[1]
The oil-on-wood painting measures 46.40 by 36.80 centimetres (18.27 in × 14.49 in) and is signed by the artist.[2][3]
Description
The painting is of five young men smoking pipes and drinking beer. At the time, smoking was new and controversial.[3] Brouwer included a self-portrait: he is the one turning to face the viewer while lifting a drinking mug and exhaling smoke.[4] While the subjects have not been identified with certainty, it has been suggested the person in black and white apparel depicted on the right is painter Jan de Heem;[3] the person in the middle is Joos van Craesbeeck; the person depicted blowing smoke out of his nose is painter Jan Cossiers;[3] and Jan Lievens is the person on the far left.[citation needed]
