Adriaen Brouwer

Flemish, 1605/1606 - 1638

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Flemish painter (1605-1638)

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A young man with tanned, peachy skin sits at a table pulling his mouth wide with both hands in this vertical painting. On the far side of a wooden table, he faces us with elbows splayed wide. He has hooked the first finger of each hand into the corners of his mouth to stretch his open lips into a long, goofy line. He has wide-set eyes and a wide nose. His brown hair sticks out from under a tall, fuzzy brown hat, which has a knife secured by the blade in a loop to our left. The man’s iron-gray jacket has coffee-brown sleeves with the white of his shirt showing at the cuffs. A putty-gray jug accented with washes of rust-red and a glass filled with an amber liquid sit on the table before him. Soft light from the upper left gleams white on these smooth surfaces. A dark mass visible under the table is presumably the tops of his legs. The top right corner of his wooden chair is visible over his right shoulder, on our left, and he is set against a dove-gray background. The scene is loosely painted so brushstrokes are especially visible in the man’s face and hands.
Adriaen Brouwer, Youth Making a Face, c. 1632/1635, oil on panel, New Century Fund, 1994.46.1

Youth Making a Face

Adriaen Brouwer · c. 1632/1635 · oil on panel ·  Accession ID  1994.46.1

Adriaen Brouwer, Clement de Jonghe, Heads of a Peasant Man and Woman, engraving, Rosenwald Collection, 1964.8.401

Heads of a Peasant Man and Woman

Adriaen Brouwer, Clement de Jonghe · · engraving ·  Accession ID  1964.8.401

Bibliography

1753

  • Houbraken, Arnold. De Groote Schouburgh der Nederlantsche Konstschilders en Schilderessen. 3 vols. in 1. The Hague, 1753 (Reprint: Amsterdam, 1976): 1:318-333.

1971

  • Bie, Cornelis de. Het gulden cabinet van de edel vry schilderconst. Edited by Gerard Lemmens. Reprint of Antwerp, 1661/1662. Soest, 1971: 91-95.

1982

  • Klinge, Margret. Adriaen Brower, David Teniers the Younger. Exh. cat. Norrtman and Brod, New York and Maastricht. Bradford and London, 1982: 9-17.

1986

  • Renger, Konrad. Adriaen Brouwer und das niederländische Bauerngenre 1600-1660. Exh. cat. Alte Pinakothek, Munich, 1986.

1993

  • Sutton, Peter C., and Marjorie E. Wieseman, et al. The Age of Rubens. Exh. cat. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; Toledo Museum of Art. Boston, 1993: 406.

2005

  • Wheelock, Arthur K., Jr. Flemish Paintings of the Seventeenth Century. The Collections of the National Gallery of Art Systematic Catalogue. Washington, D.C., 2005: 9.