# The Drinker [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [OSTADE, Adriaen Jansz. van]() - Date: 1651-1700 - Technique: Oil on wood ## Commentary Adriaen van Ostade, a native of Haarlem, is said to have been a pupil of Frans Hals. Certainly one can see the master's influence in his choice of subjects and in his approach, particularly in his early work, but he created an artistic idiom of his own and his development was essentially individual. He painted genre-scenes, recording the lives of ordinary Dutch townsfolk and peasants; in his pictures we see the interiors of cottages and poor village schools, crowded taverns and workshops. But he often depicted single figures as well: everyday characters such as the baker, the fishmonger or the barber-surgeon. Market scenes were a favourite subject of his. <P> <TABLE ALIGN=LEFT CELLPADDING=5 BORDER=1 WIDTH=320 BGCOLOR="\#99CCCC"> <TR VALIGN=MIDDLE><TD><IMG SRC="/support/gif/listen.gif" BORDER=0 VALIGN=MIDDLE> Suggested listening \(streaming mp3, 5 minutes\):<BR><A HREF="\#" onClick="w=window.open \('/music1/19\_cent/nicolai\_windsor\_drinking.html', 'newWin', 'scrollbars=yes,status=no,dependent=yes,screenX=0,screenY=0,width=350,height=350'\);w.opener=this;w.focus\(\);return true"><B>Otto Nicolai: Die lustigen Weiber von Windsor \(The Merry Wives of Windsor\), drinking song</B></A> </TD></TR></TABLE> ## Related artworks - [A Fight]() - [A Man With Pince-Nez \(The Sense of Sight\)]() - [Alchemist]() - [Barber Extracting of Tooth]() - [Brawl]() - [Carousing Peasants in a Tavern]() - [Comedian Reading in a Tavern]() - [Cutting the Feather]() - [Feasting Peasants in a Tavern]() - [Flute Player]() - [Inn Scene]() - [Interior of a Farmhouse with Skaters]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()