# Tavern Scene [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [CRAESBEECK, Josse van]() - Date: 1601-1650 - Technique: Oil on panel, 54 x 65 cm ## Commentary Craesbeeck's early work before 1640 possesses a rather monochrome tonality. From that time date several caricatured heads of peasants, executed with remarkably free touch. Compositions with more figures can also be placed in this early period because of their dark atmospheric tonality defined by chiaroscuro, as seen in the Tavern Scene showing a quarrel at an inn. ## Related artworks - [Company of Peasants in a Tavern]() - [Death is Violent and Fast]() - [Drunkard]() - [Drunken Singers Seated around a Table in a Tavern]() - [Guardroom Interior]() - [Interior of an Inn]() - [Officer Reading a Letter]() - [Peasant Grimacing]() - [Peasants in front of a Village Inn]() - [The Lute Concert]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()