Results: 1
-
View: Detail
-
-
- Adriaen Brouwer (1605 - 1638)
- A Boor Asleep
- Belgium
- c. 1630 - c. 1638
- Painting
- Oil on oak panel
- Image size: 36.6 x 27.6 cm
Frame size: 56.5 x 48 cm - P211
- Reserve Gallery
- View other works from this period
- Open page with bookmarkable URL
- Buy a Print
- Commentary
- History
- Catalogues
-
- The delicate palette and bravura handling of this jewel-like example of Brouwer’s art, painted on a beige ground, are typical of the artist’s maturity and help explain his appeal to contemporaries such as Rubens and Rembrandt. The composition was popular and frequently copied, Brouwer himself producing a number of closely related compositions. When the historian Dr Waagen saw A Boor Asleep in Manchester House in 1854 he described it as ‘by far the finest example of this rare master I know’.
