3-016-470 - Heritage Art/Heritage Images

Smokers in an Interior, 1637. Three men in an interior seated around a barrel that acts as a temporary table. The seated figure on the left, resting one of his feet on a footstool for greater comfort, lights his pipe. The second, on the right, leans back in a gesture that suggests that he is savouring the smoke that he has just inhaled from his pipe, some of which is still in his mouth while the rest is subtly dispersing in the air around him. The third man is located almost frontally, concentrating with great intensity on the object that he is holding.