Peasants smoking and drinking with children making music

Adriaen Rombouts (c. 1640 – in or after 1670) was a Flemish genre painter active in Brussels in the middle of the 17th century. He is known for his indoor scenes with peasants engaging in play, eating and drinking.[1]

Life

Very little is known about the life of Rombouts. He was likely born sometime around 1640. He became in 1653–1654 a pupil of Joos van Craesbeeck in Brussels.[2] Van Craesbeeck was a prominent genre painter who had trained with Adriaen Brouwer and had moved from Antwerp to Brussels around 1650.[3]

The last known dated work of Rombouts is dated 1670. It is not known when or where the artist died.[1]

Work

Peasants drinking and playing cards in a tavern

Adriaen Rombouts painted scenes with peasants engaging in play, eating and drinking at home or in taverns. He also painted a portrait of the fool of a Brussels chamber of rhetoric.[4]

Some paintings attributed to him are now attributed to other artists. This includes A doctor performing a back operation, watched by country folk (Wellcome Library), which is now attributed to the anonymous Antwerp artist referred to as the Monogrammist H.C.[5]

References

  1. 1 2 Adriaen Rombouts at the Netherlands Institute for Art History (in Dutch)
  2. ↑ Adriaen Rombouts, Bauern bei der Mahlzeit at Lempertz (in German)
  3. ↑ Hildegard Kayser, Niederländische und flämische Malerei des 16. und 17. Jahrhunderts, Kulturgeschichtliches Museum Osnabrück, Museums- und Kunstverein Osnabrück, Kommissionsverlag H.Th. Wenner, 1983, p. 32 (in German)
  4. ↑ Johan Verberckmoes, Laughter, Jestbooks and Society in the Spanish Netherlands, Springer, 1999, p. 22
  5. ↑ attributed to Monogrammist H.C. (Zuidelijke Nederlanden), A doctor performing a back operation, watched by country folk, ca. 1660 London, The Wellcome Trust, inv./cat.nr. 500931i at the Netherlands Institute for Art History (in Dutch)
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