17th century European school

European School of the XVII century.
"Smoker".
Oil on canvas.
Measurements: 112 x 82 cm.

This smoker is a clear representative of Dutch genre painting. The genre painting in Flanders, as in Holland, enclosed a moral lesson sometimes hardly hidden. In this type of painting the characters will be the absolute protagonists, and more especially their faces and expressions. They are also works derived from naturalism, worked in reduced chromatisms, around earthy colors, ochers, carmines, etc.