id: 95274 accession number: 1916.1046 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1916.1046 updated: 2023-08-29 11:33:42.218000 Peasants Smoking in an Inn, c. 1640. David Teniers (Flemish, 1610–1690). Oil on wood; framed: 46.5 x 37 x 4 cm (18 5/16 x 14 9/16 x 1 9/16 in.); unframed: 37.2 x 26.3 cm (14 5/8 x 10 3/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Wade 1916.1046 title: Peasants Smoking in an Inn title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: c. 1640 creation date earliest: 1635 creation date latest: 1645 current location: creditline: Gift of Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Wade copyright: --- culture: Flanders, 17th century technique: oil on wood department: European Painting and Sculpture collection: P - Netherlandish-Flemish type: Painting find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS * David Teniers (Flemish, 1610–1690) - artist --- measurements: Framed: 46.5 x 37 x 4 cm (18 5/16 x 14 9/16 x 1 9/16 in.); Unframed: 37.2 x 26.3 cm (14 5/8 x 10 3/8 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: inscription: signed lower left: D. TENIERS. FEC. translation: remark: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: The Twentieth Anniversary Exhibition: The Official Art Exhibit of the Great Lakes Exposition opening date: 1936-06-26T04:00:00 The Twentieth Anniversary Exhibition: The Official Art Exhibit of the Great Lakes Exposition. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 26-October 4, 1936). title: The Silver Jubilee Exhibition opening date: 1941-06-23T04:00:00 The Silver Jubilee Exhibition. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (June 23-September 28, 1941). title: Dutch Art and Life in the Seventeenth Century opening date: 1973-07-10T04:00:00 Dutch Art and Life in the Seventeenth Century. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (July 10-September 2, 1973). title: Hot Dry Men, Cold Wet Women: The Theory of Humor and Depictions of Men and Women in Western European Art of the 1600s opening date: 1997-09-13T00:00:00 Hot Dry Men, Cold Wet Women: The Theory of Humor and Depictions of Men and Women in Western European Art of the 1600s. Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, NE (September 13-November 2, 1997); Arkansas Museum of Fine Arts, Little Rock, AR (November 20, 1997-February 6, 1998); John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art, Sarasota, FL (February 27-April 24, 1998). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS * CMA, 1913: cat. no. 163D.;
CMA, 1936: cat. no. 243.;
Bloomington, IL., 1939: Central Illinois Art Exhibition, cat. no. 12.;
CMA, 1973.;
Omaha, NE: Joslyn Art Museum 9/13 - 11/2/97. Little Rock, AR: Arkansas Art Center 11/20/97 - 2/6/98. Sarasota, FL: John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art 2/27 - 4/26/98. "Hot Dry Men, Cold Wet Women: The Theory of Humor and Depictions of Men and Women in Western European Art of the 1600s." no. 13, pp. 48-49. --- PROVENANCE Louis de Bourbon-Conde, Comte de Clermont, 1709-1771 (Paris, France); date: footnotes: citations: Bought by Jean-Baptiste-Pierre Lebrun, died 1813 (Paris, France), 1796 for Richard Codman (Boston, Massachusetts); date: footnotes: citations: By inheritance to his son, John Codman, 1755-1803 (Boston, Massachusetts), 1803; date: footnotes: citations: By inheritance to his son, Charles R. Codman, 1784-1852 (Boston, Massachusetts), 1852; date: footnotes: citations: By inheritance to his son, Richard Codman (Boston, Massachusetts); date: footnotes: citations: Sold through Boussod-Valadon to Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Wade (Gates Mills, Ohio), 1893 [as Interior Public House]; date: footnotes: citations: By bequest to the Cleveland Museum of Art, 1916. date: footnotes: citations: --- fun fact: digital description: David Teniers the Younger was a popular artist who specialized in small paintings of rustic Flemish life in the 1600s. In works such as Peasants Smoking in an Inn, an older man and a younger man in the foreground smoke tobacco. The younger man rests limply against the wall and his head lolls back, a gesture that symbolized that he had overindulged in smoke. Another standing man prepares his pipe and watches the younger man with amusement. Tobacco was a novelty in the 1600s, introduced from the Americas and East Indies with other new imports such as sugar cane and rice, and was believed to be a medicinal product. It was particularly recommended for people who lived in "waterish places" such as Antwerp, the capital of Flanders, where Teniers painted this scene. Although many medical practitioners believed tobacco to be a cure for numerous ailments, moral opponents to smoking criticized it as a danger to health and morals. The mixed reputation and widespread popularity of tobacco smoking thus made it a marketable and amusing subject for Flemish artists such as Teniers. wall description: --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS "The Wade Collection." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 4, no. 1 (1917): 3-12. page number: Mentioned: p. 4 url: http://www.jstor.org/stable/25136060 The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1966. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1966. page number: Reproduced: p. 121 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1966/page/n144 The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1969. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1969. page number: Reproduced: p. 121 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1969/page/n144 The Cleveland Museum of Art. Handbook of the Cleveland Museum of Art/1978. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1978. page number: Reproduced: p. 155 url: https://archive.org/details/CMAHandbook1978/page/n174 The Cleveland Museum of Art. The Cleveland Museum of Art Catalogue of Paintings, Part 3: European Paintings of the 16th, 17th, and 18th Centuries. Cleveland, OH: The Cleveland Museum of Art, 1982. page number: Reproduced: p. 40; Mentioned: p. 41 url: Weller, Dennis P. "Creating an Acquired Taste for Flemish Paintings: The Advice of W. R. Valentiner and Others." In America and the Art of Flanders: Collecting Paintings by Rubens, Van Dyck, and Their Circles. Esmée.Quodbach, ed., 102-115. University Park, Pennsylvania: The Pennsylvania State University Press, 2020. page number: Mentioned and reproduced: P. 105-106, fig. 61 url: --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1916.1046/1916.1046_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1916.1046/1916.1046_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1916.1046/1916.1046_full.tif