# A Cavalier Seated at a Table

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## Artwork

- Artist: [MIERIS, Jan van](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/mieris-jan-van-r1b7fd1f726347b>)
- Date: 1651-1700
- Technique: Oil on panel, 25 x 19 cm

## Commentary

This painting depicts a cavalier seated at a table smoking a pipe, with an opened tobacco box, a wineglass, a flask and a pile of playing cards and coins, with a landscape beyond. Genre painting from the seventeenth century usually conceals a hidden message underneath what appears to be a scene from everyday life. This also seems to be the case in the present picture with a hidden Vanitas theme.

## Related artworks

- [Elegant Lady with a Mirror](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/mieris-jan-van-r1b7fd1f726347b/elegant-lady-with-a-mirror-rf498518d57619d>)
- [The Toper \(detail\)](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/mieris-jan-van-r1b7fd1f726347b/the-toper-detail-rc1743468661767>)
- [The Toper](<https://beta.wga.hu/artists/mieris-jan-van-r1b7fd1f726347b/the-toper-r91bab2bd34bb94>)

## Attribution

[Web Gallery of Art](<https://beta.wga.hu/pages/about>)