Philips Wouwerman. The Farrier of the Camp, ca. 1650 (Royal Collection Trust, London).

Oil on wood: 37.4 x 32.2 cm.

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Gerard/ Gerrit van Honthorst. The Concert Group ('Concert on a Balcony'/ 'Le Concert'), 1624 (Musée du Louvre, Paris).

Oil on canvas: 168 x 178 cm.

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David Teniers the younger. Smokers and Drinkers (‘Fumadores y bebedores’), 1652 (Museo Nacional del Prado, Madrid).

Oil on wood: 34 x 48 cm.

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Brunswick (Braunschweiger) Monogrammist. A Dispute in a Brothel (‘Bordellszene’), ca. 1537 (Gemäldegalerie, Berlin).

Oil on wood: 29 x 45 cm.

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Jan Brueghel the elder. Visit to the Tenants (‘Besuch auf dem Pachthof’), ca. 1597 (Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna).

Oil on copper: 27 x 36 cm. A copy by Jan Brueghel the elder of a now lost original by his father Pieter Bruegel. The Frits Lugt Collection in Paris still holds a grisaille drawing attributed to Pieter Bruegel, dated 1567 and titled 'Visit to the Tenant Farmer' (Fondation Custodia, Paris). In Antwerp lies another grisaille panel by Jan Brueghel the elder, titled 'Visit to the Peasants' (Koninklijk Museum voor Schone Kunsten, Antwerp). Yet another oil on wood panel copy in The Holburne Museum/ UK by Pieter Brueghel the younger (son of Pieter Bruegel, and brother of Jan Brueghel the elder), dated ca. 1620 and titled ‘The Visit of the Godfather’. It was initially thought that the scene depicted a visit by a rich foster father to a newly born godchild, but it is now believed to represent a maternity visit by a landlord to his tenants.

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Jan Havicksz Steen. The Effects of Intemperance, ca. 1664 (National Gallery, London).

Oil on wood: 76 x 107 cm.

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Jacobus/ Jacob Vrel. Interior with a Woman combing a little Girl’s Hair, ca. 1660 (Detroit Institute of Arts).

Oil on oak: 55.9 x 40.6 cm. Close to modern.

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Jan Havicks Steen. As the Old sing, so pipe the Young (‘Soo voer gesongen, soo na gepepen’), 1670 (Mauritshuis, The Hague).

Oil on canvas: 133.7 x 162.5 cm.

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Karel Dujardin. Peasant Girl milking a Cow, ca. 1659 (Nationalmuseum, Stockholm).

Oil on canvas: 66 x 59 cm.

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Jean-Eugène Buland. Parent's Happiness (‘Bonheur des parents’/ ‘Elternglück’/ ‘Mann mit stillender Frau’), 1903 (private collection).

Oil on canvas: 97.5 x 129 cm. Sentimentalism. Auctioned at Neumeister Kunstauktionshaus Munich, March 2010.

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Nicolaes Maes. The Lacemaker (‘Lace-maker at Work’), ca. 1656 (Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York).

Oil on canvas: 45.1 x 52.7 cm.

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Salomon van Ruysdael. Drawing the Eel (‘Palingtrekken’/ ‘A Kermesse’), ca. 1650 (Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York).

Oil on wood: 74.9 x 106 cm.

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Gerard/ Gerrit van Honthorst. Musical Group on a Balcony, 1622 (J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles).

Oil on panel: 309.9 x 216.4 cm(!). Illusionistic ceiling panel.

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Pieter Bruegel the elder. The Beggars (‘Les Mendiants’), 1568 (Musée du Louvre, Paris).

Oil on wood: 18.5 x 21.5 cm(!). You pay them to please stop their terrible show.

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Hendrick Avercamp. Winter Landscape with Ice Skaters (‘Winterlandschap met schaatsers’), ca. 1608 (Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam).

Oil on wood: 77.3 x 131.9 cm.

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Pieter Bruegel the elder. The Harvesters, 1565 (Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York).

Oil on wood: 119 x 162 cm (including added strips).

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David Teniers the younger. Tavern Scene with Smokers (‘Peasant lighting his Pipe’), ca. 1645 (Nationalmuseum, Stockholm).

Oil on oak: 23.9 x 19 cm(!). Auctioned at Bukowskis Stockholm, Autumn 2012.

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Leo Putz. The Picnic, 1903 (private collection).

Oil on canvas: 169 x 175.5 cm. Auctioned at Sotheby’s London, November 2012. Similar version (1904) at the Neue Pinakothek, Munich. 

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Jan Havicksz Steen. A Card Players Brawl (‘Streit beim Kartenspiel’), ca. 1660 (Gemäldegalerie, Berlin).

Oil on canvas: 84.3 x 117.3 cm.

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Jean Colombe. Book of Hours of the Duke of Berry - November ('Très riches heures du Duc de Berry - Novembre'), ca. 1485 (Musée Condé, Chantilly).

Manuscript illumination/ miniature on vellum: ca. 16.2 x 13.6 cm(!). Detail.

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