Live auction - Lot 70
[French or Dutch school]
Tavern scene with pipe smokers.
Late 17th c. or 18th c
€ 250 / 300
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Lot description
Drawing, pen and black ink, brush and grey gouache, 21,7 x 17,4 cm, laid paper (min. foxing).
Under passe-partout, under wooden gilt frame (not studied outside frame).
Lively interior scene with drinkers and pipe-smokers accompanied by a woman lighting one of the men's pipes. In the pictorial tradition of Ardiaen Brouwer, Adriaen van Ostade and Jan Steen.