# The Back Operation [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [BROUWER, Adriaen]() - Date: 1601-1650 - Technique: Oil on panel, 34 x 27 cm ## Commentary The figures in Brouwer's later pictures, produced after he had settled in Antwerp, are especially animated in gesture and expression, manifesting an unprecedented display of skill matched only by the sophisticated style in which they were painted. The Back Operation is an outstanding representative of Brouwer's late style. The artist has intensified the monochromatic effects of his earlier works, rendering them in a higher key than previously, and he has reduced his composition to just three figures who proportionally occupy a significant area of the interior space. ## Related artworks - [A Boor Asleep]() - [Brawling Peasants]() - [Brawling Peasants]() - [Cardplayers in an Inn]() - [Drunken Peasant in a Tavern]() - [Drunken Peasants]() - [Dune Landscape by Moonlight]() - [Feeling]() - [In the Tavern]() - [Interior of a Smoking Room]() - [Peasants Fighting]() - [Peasants of Moerdyck]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()