The old drinker. A man is sitting next to a beer barrel, a pipe in his right hand, a pewter jug in his left hand. A jug hangs on the wall. This old ma

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The old drinker. A man is sitting next to a beer barrel, a pipe in his right hand, a pewter jug in his left hand. A jug hangs on the wall. This old man holding a beer tankard looks out at us somewhat drowsily. The tally of the drinks he has consumed is chalked up on the slate behind him. The beer barrel at the left bears the mark of Het Rode Hert (The Red Hart), an Amsterdam brewery on the Prinsengracht. Metsu was living next door to it around 1650.

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Photo credit: © Viktor Birkus / Alamy / Afripics
License: Royalty Free
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