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A Distillery with an elderly Man buying Gin from a Woman

David Teniers II (1610–1690)

Ashmolean Museum, Oxford

A Distillery with an elderly Man buying Gin from a Woman

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Teniers was a prolific painter in several genres, including peasant subjects in the manner of Brouwer which were widely known through engravings. This painting has been dated to the 1640s. It was known in eighteenth-century France as 'Le Manchot' – 'The One Armed Man' – on account of the seated figure whose left hand is concealed below his apron. He holds up a coin to buy a glass of gin from the woman seated opposite. The distillery, probably an illegal still, appears in the background in another room. The owl may have been included as an allusion to human folly.

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Title

A Distillery with an elderly Man buying Gin from a Woman

Date

c. 1640–1949

Medium

oil on panel

Measurements

H 48.4 x W 65.4 cm

Accession number

WA1999.9

Acquisition method

Accepted by HM Government in lieu of inheritance tax on the estate of Mrs Joan Cecily Conway and allocated to the Ashmolean, 1998

Work type

Painting

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David Teniers II

1610–1690

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