Attributed to David Teniers the Younger (1610–1690) Flemish, Oil on Board Figural Genre Painting. Golden Age style oil painting on panel attributed to David Teniers the Younger, depicting a seated man in a red jacket smoking a pipe by a hearth. Attributed on plaque. Framed.

Overall Size: 14 1/4 x 16 1/2 in.
Sight Size: 5 x 8 in.

David Teniers the Younger (1610–1690) was a leading Flemish Baroque painter celebrated for lively genre scenes depicting peasant life, tavern interiors, village festivities, and guardrooms. Born in Antwerp, he trained with his father, David Teniers the Elder, and later became one of the most successful artists in the Spanish Netherlands. Teniers gained international fame for his detailed yet humorous portrayals of everyday rural life, as well as for landscapes, allegories, and scenes of alchemists and smokers. In 1651 he was appointed court painter to Archduke Leopold Wilhelm of Austria in Brussels, where he also managed the archduke’s renowned art collection and produced the illustrated catalog known as the Theatrum Pictorium—often considered the first printed catalog of a major art collection. His prolific output and engaging subject matter made him one of the most influential Flemish genre painters of the 17th century.

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