The Smokers (painting)


The Smokers is a painting by the Flemish painter Adriaen Brouwer, painted in ca. 1636, probably in Antwerp. It hangs in The Metropolitan Museum of Art, in New York City.
The oil-on-wood painting measures and is signed by the artist.

Description

The painting is of several young men smoking cigarettes and drinking beer. A self-portrait of Brouwer appears among them. The person depicted at right is painter Jan de Heem.