The 1000++ Artworks of topic Food,Boys and ...

The man represented in this painting is immortalized in the act of tamping his pipe in a window that is bracketed by vines, bearing ripe grapes; to his left, there is a bottle of wine, a silver tobacco box and a shell, resting on the window sill. Man with pipe is part of a longer series of portraits...

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The boy has just lowered his pipe and looks with satisfaction at the bubbles he has sent flying. One hand holds the soap dish, a scallop shell which still holds a few trembling bubbles. The boy is balanced on a giant soap bubble, surfing the waves on an equally giant shell. This vessel constitutes a...

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Family scene. Interior with a family singing and drinking around a table. On the table a plate with a waffle, on the right a young man with a pipe. By the window a singing old woman and a boy with a whistle. An old man holds up a rumor with wine. A mother put her child on the table. In the foregroun...

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Visiting tomorrow. Interior of a kitchen where an old man sitting at a table stops his pipe. On the left is a young woman with a boy. In front of the table on the floor are baskets with all kinds of vegetables (sleep, roots).

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Speculation on the significance of soap bubbles as a metaphor for transience led to van Mieris’ joyful theme of innocent childhood being given a serious moral interpretation. There is a long tradition of ‘disguised symbolism’ in Dutch painting. In line with this approach, the vines could be read as ...

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Towards the end of antiquity, aspiring citizens had adopted the customs of the aristocracy – and not least of these were its drinking habits. A prime example of this development is the quantity, diversity and quality of the painted drinking vessels in an antique collection from the late 6th to early...

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Portraits of Thomas Hees, resident and commissioner of the States General to the governments of Algiers, Tunis and Tripoli, mediator on the ransom of Christian slaves in Algiers in 1683 with his cousins Jan and Andries Hees, and Thomas, the slave servant of African origin. Hees is at the heart of th...

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At the end of the 15th century, Netherlands artists such as Hieronymus Bosch (c. 1450-1516) and Pieter Bruegel the Elder (c. 1527-1569) helped create the tradition, still alive far into the 17th century, of illustrating proverbs and other popular wisdom. Jordaens was one of the last great practition...

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In front of a crowd of at least two dozen people, an old man with a long white beard and hair, wearing tattered clothing, points with a crooked finger toward another man in this horizontal painting. All the people have pale, peachy skin except one man with light brown skin at the front of the crowd,...

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