Minneapolis Institute of Art
The Smoker
Adriaen van Ostade
- Date
- c. 1640
- Medium
- Etching
- Department
- European Art
- Institution
- Minneapolis Institute of Art
“The smell of the Dutch Republic is the smell of tobacco, ” said art historian Simon Schama. When this print was made, smoking was largely demonized, a vice deposited on Dutch shores by seamen. Rather than moralizing, Adriaen van Ostade etched a figure simply absorbed in the pleasure of his clay pipe and bowl, which holds an ember to light the tobacco. Netherlands, Europe
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