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| Man Holding a Jug |
Artist:Michiel Sweerts (Flemish, Brussels 1618–1664 Goa)
Date:ca. 1660
Medium:Oil on canvas
Dimensions:19 3/8 x 15 3/8 in. (49.2 x 39.1 cm)
Classification:Paintings
Credit Line:Gift of Herman and Lila Shickman, 2001
Accession Number:2001.613
A moment’s glance at a tavern habitué allows the painter to display his remarkable gifts for describing character as well as physical substances and light effects. "Low life" studies of this kind can be traced back in the Spanish Netherlands through Adriaen Brouwer and his followers to Pieter Bruegel in the 1560s, but Sweerts makes the subject look freshly observed.
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