# Peasants Drinking and Making Music in a Barn [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [OSTADE, Adriaen Jansz. van]() - Date: 1651-1700 - Technique: Oil on panel, 34 x 27 cm ## Commentary Peasants Drinking and Making Music in a Barn c. 1635 Oil on panel, 34 x 27 cm Private collection Like Brouwer, Adriaen van Ostade depicted caricatured peasants as humorous, raucous embodiments of Excess. This painting typifies his early stale. The subject matter is, much like its stylistic features, greatly indebted to Brouwer's prototypes. ## 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]()