# Begging Musicians [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [VENNE, Jan van der]() - Date: 1601-1650 - Technique: Oil on panel, 56 x 39 cm ## Commentary Jan van der Venne's pictures of gypsies, as well as toothdrawers and musicians, mostly dressed in archaic costumes, have a pronouncedly vicious and caricaturish appearance. In spirit they are closely related to Brouwer's work, but the style differs essentially from his. Van der Venne's glaring lighting and his preference for wrinkled, eroded faces and a type of figure that is painted as if rough-hewn from hard stone, is very individual. ## Related artworks - [St Christopher Carrying the Christ Child \(detail\)]() - [St Christopher Carrying the Christ Child]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()