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Teniers has painted the faces of the card players and their companions in a far less cartoon-like manner than is usual for him. The texture of their skin and their facial expressions are far more realistic than those of the men around the pancake maker, where Teniers has used his customary grotesque and exaggerated style. Pictures of ‘merry-making peasants’ – as they were known in Teniers’s time – were popular with well-to-do buyers, who would use them as a moral lesson but would also find them amusing.
Title
Two Men playing Cards in the Kitchen of an Inn
Date
probably 1635-40
Medium
Oil on oak
Measurements
H 55.5 x W 76.5 cm
Accession number
NG2600
Acquisition method
Salting Bequest, 1910
Work type
Painting