Painting and Sculpture

Customers Conversing in a Tavern

Customers Conversing in a Tavern is a Dutch Golden Age Oil-on-panel painting by artist Adriaen van Ostade completed in 1671. A promised gift to the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston by collectors Susan and Matthew Weatherbie as part of an expansion on Dutch and Flemish paintings, it was subjected to provenance research, to which it has been revealed to have been looted by the Nazis. The painting depicts two groups of people chatting in a bar, accompanied with a sleeping dog and two roosters pecking at the floor.

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• ▸Christ and the Adulteress (Titian, Glasgow)
• ▸Gennaria diphylla
• ▸An Italian Contadina and Her Children

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