Ingeniously, this same cage forms the top of a triangle with the three central figures in this genre piece forming the base line. Below left, with the dog, a diagonal line stretches from the man’s violin to the bird cage. Above it, the round pewter plates echo the figures’ heads and lead into the upper section of the painting. Below this line is the scene of figures drinking and making musjc. The composition of this interior is based on the Greek cross pattern (X) dissected by a horizontal line. He may have studied with the painter Johannes Torrentius from Haarlem. Pieter Duyfhuysen, who was known as a genre painter, was from Rotterdam.

The presence of both vessels indicates that the humiliating scene is being played out in a tavern, not in a private home. The larger is a pitcher that in turn would have been filled from the barrel. The smaller of the two jugs is in fact for drinking out of, a tankard, and was certainly used for beer. Interestingly the picture contains no glasses or mugs. The interior is executed in shades of brown with the light falling on the principal elements: both the peasants, the pewter beer jugs the bunch of onions and the white cloth in the basket are all illuminated. What immediately strikes one about this painting is the telling expressions of the two principal characters: the derision of the standing man and the dismay of the seated peasant. And this picture perfectly illustrates the saying: ‘Too much of ought is good for nought’. Over-indulgence in alcohol and smoking leads to impotence. 1603 - 1637 Jan Weenix (sold) Still Life with a HareĪmsterdam 1640/41 – 1719 Adriaen van der Werff and workshop The Flute Playing Shepherd 1603 - 1637 Jan van Vucht Church Interior Uithoorn / Amsterdam 1647 - 1723 Jan van Vucht Interior of a Palace 1632 - 1680 Johannes Voorhout The repudiation of Hagar Leiden 1640 - 1719 Arie de Vois Woman Drinking Leiden / Oegstgeest 1640 - 1719 Jacob Toorenvliet Banquet in the Open Air 1625 - 1678 Jacob Toorenvliet A Young Lady and a Fishseller Naarden 1635 - 1714 Amsterdam Gillis van Tilborgh Elegant Companyīrussels c. Leiden 1662 - 1747 Louis de Moni La petite tricherieīreda / Leiden 1698 - 1771 Jan van Neck Putti and Satyr with a Goat Leiden 1689 - 1763 Willem van Mieris Diana resting in a landscape 1610 - 1668 Frans van Mieris II The Fish Saleswoman Tilburg / Amsterdam 1755 - 1820 Jan Miense Molenaer Twelfth Night Nijmegen 1614 - 1669 Amsterdam Jan Joseph Horemans II The Cunning Maid or the Outwitted GuardianĪntwerp 1714 - after 1790 Jan Joseph Horemans I Musical Company Adriaan de Lelie Returning from the Market Haarlem 1634 - 1704 London Nicolaes van Helt Stocade King Tarquin and the Sibyl of Cumae Haarlem 1591 - 1656 Egbert van Heemskerck Tavern Scene 1610/15 - 1675 Dirck Hals Interior with Figures Smoking and Playing tric trac Rotterdam 1608 - 1677 Rotterdam Leendert Maertensz. Haarlem 1660 - 1704 Pieter Duyfhuysen Peasant Inn The Hague 1694 – 1762 Cornelis Dusart The Fish Saleswoman

1600 - after 1649 Abraham van Calraet Horse in a Landscape Hendrik Carré Fish Sellers in The Hague Middelburg 1600/1620- 1673 Middelburg Faustino Bocchi Glorious Entry of an Army of Dwarfs carrying Lootīrescia 1659 - 1742 Jean-Francois van Bredael I Hunters resting beside a FountainĪntwerp 1683 or 1686 - 1750 Anonymous artist, after Pieter Bruegel the Elder The Fat Kitchen Jan Jansz. The Hague / Amsterdam 1610 - 1674 Daniël de Blieck Interior of a Church The Hague 1610 - 1674 Amsterdam Painted circa 1650 Sybrand van Beest ‘Vrouwe Wereld’ : Allegory of Transience Sybrand van Beest The Hague Vegetable Market in Winter

Tavern master genres