The Drunken Couple

Cleveland Museum of Art

The Drunken Couple

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Date
1685
Medium
etching
Culture
Netherlands
Department
Prints
Institution
Cleveland Museum of Art
Object ID
123318

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Images of intoxicated individuals were intended to be humorous, but they also had serious undertones. Moralizing texts and preachers described drinking as sinful, immoral, and a threat to social norms. Accordingly, a drunk woman, as seen here, compromised the well-being of the home, which was thought to have an impact on society as a whole. Thatched roofs like the one depicted here were popular throughout Europe until the 1800s. Many of the thatched roofs in Europe today contain straw dating back to the 1600s.

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Credit line
Mr. and Mrs. Lewis B. Williams Collection
Provenance
?–1943: Lewis B. Williams [1880–1966], Cleveland Heights, OH, given to the Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH | December 29, 1943–: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH

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