Pipes in Art

[edgreen]

David Teniers the Younger – Peasants outside a country inn – 1642

David Teniers the Younger – The card players – 1643

 

[simnettpratt]

I like the paintings of peasants the best and I don't know why. Thank you ed.

 

[edgreen]

I'm glad you like the peasant paintings. Just like there were dozens of Harnett's and Peto's in American museums, there are dozens of van Ostade and David Teniers the Younger paintings in the British Royal collection and the Scottish National Museum.

You know, in the US we have lithographs of these artists. Royal families get the original paintings. Unlike when some of them were bought or donated, they are, now, really available to the whole country. How cool is that? The peasants can see if they really look like the Jack Kirby on Prozac characters these two guys cook up.

 

[claypipesarchaeologist]

The peasants definitely look like more fun. I'd rather be stuck in any one of those tavern/farm scenes than with those stuffy monarchy types.

 

[simnettpratt]

And that, is why archy and I get along. Don't really understand it, but she sent me a stick and a stone, and I liked 'em both. Thanks ed.

 

[edgreen]

David Morier – Private, Regiment of Hussars – 1748

Adriaen van Ostade - An Evening Scene in a Tavern, with a Fiddler – 1655

Adriaen van Ostade – Peasants in a tavern – 1665

 

[simnettpratt]

Man, those last two are awesome ed, thank you. Keep looking at them. I would party with those dudes.

 

[claypipesarchaeologist]

^ I'll see you there!
And, ed, that Regiment of Hussars is a great find. I'm still chuckling over it :laughat:

 

[simnettpratt]

archy, you are a delight. Thank you ed.

 

[edgreen]

Adriaen van Ostade –the interior of a peasant’s cottage – 1668 it’s on the table

Sir William Oliphant Hutchinson – The smoking room, Scottish Arts Club – 1945

 

[edgreen]

^ Why are all those guys in the smoking room if only one of them is smoking? Think he's smoking Molte Dolce?

And the peasant interior. Whatever happened to don't eat where you crap? Apparently that doesn't apply to kids in this household.

And, ed, that Regiment of Hussars is a great find. I'm still chuckling over it

I was amused by the Eastern Soldiers too. That bowl is really close to a bunch of cannonballs on, what looks like, an awfully windy spot. Well, like John Lee Hooker says, boom boom boom boom

 

[simnettpratt]

archy, the Hussars picture looks like the horse was photoshopped six inches above the ground. Tell me you see that too. Again, Thank You Mr. Ed.

 

[edgreen]

And that horse looks like he's saying, "Oh God, the rest of the herd is watching me. I'll never live this down."

 

[claypipesarchaeologist]

:rofl:

 

[simnettpratt]

Hee hee.

 

[edgreen]

Frans van Mieris the Elder – A man smoking and a woman – 1662

Jan Steen – Twelfth Night – 1665 the guy standing in the back must have bought the baccy round, he has all the pipes

 

[simnettpratt]

That's how I look after cleaning my pipes.

 

[edgreen]

Benjamin Robert Haydon – The Mock Election – 1827 on the ground, in middle foreground, resting on pitcher

Jan Steen – Merrymaking in a tavern with a couple dancing – 1670

 

[simnettpratt]

Just delightful ed. The peasant paintings make me happy. I would so party with those dudes. Nice boobs on the chick on the right, too. *sigh* Yeah, I'm a guy.

 

[edgreen]

You see the couple going "upstairs?"